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On 10/30/2010 11:58 AM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
>
> (seems I miss-understood Randy when he talked about this Yield some days
> ago)

Yield does what is intended by

delay 0.0;

as it is currently used: create a scheduling point where another task could get 
the processor, without otherwise slowing the current task down if there is no 
such other task.

Given that the trend is to multiprocessors, it seems an odd thing to add at this 
point.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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