BrowserUk, why did you use "threads qw yield ;" and never used the yield() function?

I simply forgot to remove the reference. I had originally coded sleep 0.001 while $Q->pending;

As yield while $Q->pending;, but switched it because yield() can render to a very tight loop, which consumes large amount of cpu needlessly.

yield equates to sleep 0 which basically relinquishes the rest of the current timeslice. But, if no other thread (or process) is ready to run, it returns very quickly making for a cpu-sapping tight loop.

On my system, the above code with yield(), consumes 25% cpu. Ie. 100% of one core.

The same code with sleep 0.001 consumes so little cpu it gets measured as 0.00%, but it mokes no difference to the overall runtime of the program.

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In reply to Re^5: Perl && threads && queues - how to make all this work together by BrowserUk
in thread Perl && threads && queues - how to make all this work together by xaero123

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