Separate Task or Time Calculation - Code Suggestion

[Crzyrio]

Hi,

This might be more personal preference but i’d Like to know peoples ideas on why they’d do this problem one way or the other.

All of this is happening on a separate background thread, so you don’t have to worry about blocking the UI or anything.

In this thread I have 2 tasks to do:

1. has to be done every 0.5Seconds

2. Can vary between needing to be done once every 1 second or every 30 seconds.

The two options I see

Dim StartTime = Datetime.Now
Dim Interval as Double= (input)
While [Condotion]
   ‘Do task one
    If (task1outcome =False)
       Exit While
    End if
   If StartTime.Subtract(DateTime.Now) > Interval Then
     ‘Do task two 
      StartTime = Datetime.now
 
   End if
   Thread.Sleep(500)’ms
 
End While
 
‘—————— Option 2 ————
 
While [Condition]
  ‘Do task 2
  Thread.Sleep(Interval)
End While
 
‘The above code would be Run in a task
 
While [Condition]
 ‘Do task 1
  If (task1outcome = False) Then
      Stop Task
      Exit While
  End If  
  Thread.Sleep (500) ‘ms
End While

Sorry for the bad Pseudo code, but this was semi bothering me and I’m on my phone.