Threading unfairness

[James J. Besemer]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> We had been unthinkingly using time.sleep(0.01) for a while, just
> kind of blindly using it as a free "yield timeslice".

Too bad there is no such implementation for this useful function.

It'd be great if time.sleep(0) did the job.  Or even better would be if there was
an explicit thread.yield().

--jb

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