Re: Yield, sleep or wait

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From: Hugo Ferreira
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00

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Johan,

I totally agree with you. It made debugging asynchronous events very
difficult.

Thanx.

Hugo.

Johan Forsberg wrote in message <7n4ha0$k049@forums.borland.com>...
>
>Hugo Ferreira <HugoF@cocaina.inescn.pt> skrev i
>diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:7n4bkg$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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