Sleep for milliseconds

Question

I know the POSIX sleep(x) function makes the program sleep for x seconds. Is there a function to make the program sleep for x milliseconds in C++?

Answer 1

In C++11, you can do this with standard library facilities:

#include <chrono> #include <thread> 

std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(x)); 

Clear and readable, no more need to guess at what units the sleep() function takes.