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Various ways of performing an operation asynchronously after a delay

November 29, 2012 Nov 29, 2012 11/29/12

Raymond Chen

Okay, if you have a UI thread that pumps messages, then the easiest way to perform an operation after a delay is to set a timer. But let's say you don't have a UI thread that you can count on. One method is to burn a thread: Less expensive is to borrow a thread from the thread pool: But both of these methods hold a thread hostage for ...