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Difference Between sleep and yield Method in Java

Deepika Sahu answered on December 30, 2022 Popularity 4/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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Difference Between sleep and yield Method in Java

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Property	                                Yield Method 	                                 Sleep Method
Purpose	If a thread wants to pause its execution to give chance for the remaining thread of the same priority then we should go for the yield method.	If a thread doesn’t want to perform any operation for a particular amount of time then we should go for the sleep method 
Over-loading	This method is not overloaded 	The sleep method is overloaded.
Exception	This method doesn’t throw an exception 	This method throws  Interrupted Exception
Native 	This method is native	Amongst the two overloaded methods, only sleep(long ms) is overloaded while the other is not.
Give up monitors	This method gives up the monitors.	This method doesn’t cause the currently executing thread to give up monitors.

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