in reply to RFC: Proposed module POSIX::Yield

threads::yield is portable across platforms and does much the same thing as your code under Linux.

I tend to use Win32::Sleep $milliseconds; to yield the processor inside poll-type loops, because it allows me to strike a balance between responsivness and threashing the processor to death.

If shed_yield() has application outside of threaded code, perhaps you could offer a patch to the POSIX module?

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Re^2: RFC: Proposed module POSIX::Yield
by tirwhan (Abbot) on Dec 02, 2005 at 17:23 UTC

    Thanks, I think I will try with a patch to POSIX and see where that gets me. That is the most logical place to look for it, and even though threads->yield will apparently do the same thing in most cases, users are more likely to recognise they can use POSIX::sched_yield() for processes.


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