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gpmlast Monday at 6:32 AM1 replyview on HN

You already do, to the kernel. It's probably not much more costly to do so an extra time in userspace.


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koakuma-chanlast Monday at 6:39 AM

I yield to the kernel to allow other threads that do some kind of background work to run. Do I want my application's async tasks to yield every 10ms? I assume that is what is being meant here.

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