Thread.yield() 与 Thread.sleep()的区别

From: http://www.j2megame.org/index.php/content/view/1608/125.html

 

I refactor the EventQueue in KEmulator, then test on some games.

when running MI3 and Gangstar, the CPU reached 100% utilization.

and after testing, i got my answer, cause of Thread.yield() in run() with a while(true) circle.

 

So i made a test, preReplace all the Thread.yield() with Thread.sleep(1) in game loading. this time, everything goes good. the MI3 got a lower 10% CPU utilization in average.

• sleep() will let your thread do nothing for a certain amount of time. Basically, your thread can’t do anything until it is done sleeping.
• yield() will cause your thread to voluntarily let other threads in your program run. If no other threads are ready to run, then your thread will continue.

Thread.yield() will help your thread give time to other threads, but when other threads are free or yield()ing will still take up 100% of the CPU. Otherwise, Thread.sleep() is the only way to force the CPU getting a rest.

 

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May be there is a same case in Mobile development.

In some handset, when the game reaches the memory limit, the key events will cause an obviously delay. In Realfootball team last year, i found out that calling more Thread.yield()(two or three) in the run() circle can solve the problem.

Maybe one Thread.sleep(1) did the job here.