Using async and await with System.Threading.Thread.Sleep

Question

I started using .NET4.5 for async and await. All examples seem to use the following to simulate a long term operation:

await Task.Delay(3000);

Now my long term calculations are really similar to:

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000)

for example:

for(i=0;i<1000000000;i++)
    i=i*2;

How do I make this work with async and await? Now it seems I can 'only' use methods like webrequests, WCF, etc... with this great new method.

Where am I missing the point?

Answer 1

await Task.Run(() => Thread.Sleep(10000))

Would work, but it's rather pointless