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Apr 14, 2022 · Fundamentals

Understanding Thread.Sleep: OS Scheduling, Time Slices, and Preemptive vs. Time‑Slice Algorithms

The article explains how Thread.Sleep works by describing operating‑system scheduling concepts such as time‑slice and preemptive algorithms, answers common questions about Sleep(1000) and Sleep(0), and clarifies why the thread may not resume exactly after the specified delay.