What is the difference between yielding and sleeping

When a task invokes its yield() method, it returns to the ready state. When a task invokesits sleep() method, it returns to the waiting state.

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sunil

Oct 6th, 2005

yield() releases lock on resources to be used by other threads, whereassleep() doesn't release lock & it will throws error it interrupted thread in sleep state.

Sony V George

Apr 5th, 2007

yield method is mainly used to release the lock of resource and pull up in to steady state from wait pool.

Sleep() will pull the thread to sleep for the given time. It will throws exception while trying to intrupt in b/w the sleep state