SV: Yield, sleep or wait

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From: Johan Forsberg
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00

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Hugo Ferreira <HugoF@cocaina.inescn.pt> skrev i
diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:7n4bkg$ji214@forums.borland.com...
> Tor,
>
> >> My question is: what does yield do ?
> >
> >public static void yield()
> >
> >Causes the currently executing thread object to temporarily pause and
> >allow other threads to execute.
> >
>
> I know, but : say I call yield within a synchronized block.
> Will it release any monitors like wait, or not like the sleep ?

Not.
It's only purpose is to let other threads execute for one time slice.
I'm really rather curious as to why this method exists at all.
Yield() makes sense in a cooperatively multithreaded environment
(Macintosh?) but no-one ever uses it anyway, so what's the point?

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