C++17 STL Cookbook

How it works...

The sleep_for and sleep_until functions have been added to C++11 and reside in the std::this_thread namespace. They block the current thread (not the whole process or program) for a specific amount of time. A thread does not consume CPU time while it is blocked. It is just put into an inactive state by the operating system. The operating system does, of course, remind itself of waking the thread up again. The best thing about this is that we do not need to care which operating system our program runs on because the STL abstracts this detail away from us.

The this_thread::sleep_for function accepts a chrono::duration value. In the simplest case, this is just 1s or 5s + 300ms, just like in our example code. In order to get ...