std::this_thread(3)

💖 std::this_thread — the Library Functions Manual glow-up 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Library Functions Manual (yes, that's the manual name, we're being official about it for like two seconds) and it's all about std::this_thread, which is lowkey the most useful little namespace in the whole C++11 universe.

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✨ NAME ✨

std::this_thread — the ISO C++ 2011 namespace for interacting with the current thread. it's giving "me, myself, and my thread" 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

🦋 Functions

• thread::id get_id () noexcept — the unique identifier of the current thread. it's literally your thread's little name tag 🎀
• template<typename _Rep, typename _Period> void sleep_for (const chrono::duration< _Rep, _Period > &__rtime) — this_thread::sleep_for
• template<typename _Clock, typename _Duration> void sleep_until (const chrono::time_point< _Clock, _Duration > &__atime) — this_thread::sleep_until
• void yield () noexcept — allow the implementation to schedule a different thread. sharing is caring fr fr 🫶

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👑 Detailed Description 👑

ISO C++ 2011 namespace for interacting with the current thread. that's the whole vibe. one namespace, four functions, infinite main character energy.

C++11 30.3.2 [thread.thread.this] Namespace this_thread. (yes that's the actual standard reference, iykyk 📖)

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💅 Function Documentation 💅

⭐ thread::id std::this_thread::get_id () [inline], [noexcept]

The unique identifier of the current thread.

like a social security number but for your thread. it's how the runtime knows which one is you ✨

🌈 template<typename _Rep, typename _Period> void std::this_thread::sleep_for (const chrono::duration< _Rep, _Period > & __rtime) [inline]

this_thread::sleep_for

Referenced by sleep_until().

💜 template<typename _Clock, typename _Duration> void std::this_thread::sleep_until (const chrono::time_point< _Clock, _Duration > & __atime) [inline]

this_thread::sleep_until

References sleep_for().

🎀 void std::this_thread::yield () [inline], [noexcept]

Allow the implementation to schedule a different thread.

it's the politest thing you can do in a hot loop. letting other threads have a turn? iconic behaviour, no cap 🧚

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🫶 Author 🫶

Generated automatically by Doxygen for libstdc++ from the source code. (not a human author, just a robot doing its best 😭 we love a machine-generated queen)

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bestie reminder: every one of these is inline, and the noexcept ones are get_id() and yield(). sleep_for() and sleep_until() are linked to each other — sleep_until() references sleep_for(), and sleep_for() is referenced by sleep_until(). periodt 💖

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okay that's the whole page!! this came to you from libstdc++ and it's filed under std::this_thread(3) in the manual — stay sleepy, stay yieldy, and always know your own thread id, bestie 🌸💜✨