While(true) or Timeout

Question

.NET

I wrote it myself, and in the code of others I met the following construction for periodically launching handlers:

while(true){ ... Thread.Sleep(время); }

instead of using TimeOut . (Well, as a rule, there is still a Boolean variable in the predicate, something like stop , but this does not change the essence.)

Are there any "pitfalls" here? It is clear that there is a time shift (so the code needs some time to execute, so we won’t get the exact time intervals between executions, like using a timer).
Any other differences?

Answer 1

stackoverflow.com/questions/13406435/is-thread-sleeptimeout-infinite-more-efficient-than-whiletrue
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tttdef8x.aspx

Answer 2

If the time is greater than int.MaxValue / 4, then the thread has every chance not to wake up. I'm not sure if this is a pitfall, but I personally ran into it once.
In addition, with fixed intervals, the real frequency can sag very strongly on a loaded system.
Well, the fact that such code takes up a whole thread should not be ignored.