Introduction

The time library is a key component of the new multithreading capabilities of C++. So you can put the current thread by std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(15) for 15 milliseconds to sleep, or you try to acquire a lock for 2 minutes: lock.try_lock_until(now + std::chrono::minutes(2)). Beside that, the chrono library makes it easy to perform simple performance tests: