What is yielding and sleeping? how they different?
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Answer / ranganathkini
When a thread yields, its execution is paused and loses
ownership of the monitor lock giving other waiting threads a
chance to run.
When a thread sleeps, its execution is paused for the
specified duration during such an idle period, the thread
continues to retain the ownership of the monitor lock.
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Answer / ravikiran
yield() method will suspend all the same priority thread
which is running and gives chance to next thread to run
which is of the same priority
sleep() method will make the thread to sleep for a
particular period of time which is specified in the
argument list
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