The right way to yield

Posted May 8, 2003 19:17 UTC (Thu) by dsime (guest, #5764)
Parent article: The right way to yield

I never thought of yeild as giving up time. rather it was giving up CPU. Sort of a polite way to not hold someone else up while waiting for a short delay.
An implementation of LWT if you will, the current implementation seems little different than a timeslice expiration. If so it would be better, for the application, to just "busy wait" then at least you may still have time when the event you are waiting for happens.