Using time.sleep() in 2 threads causes lockup when hyper-threading is enabled

[OlafMeding at gmail.com]

Marc

> IIRC it was something like an NTP daemon that caused the clock to "jump" a little and (Window's) sleep was confused.

The problem is not a "jump" but a permanet lockup of the sleep
statement.

To all others, is there nobody out there that could run the test code
at the beginning of this post on a hyper-threading CPU?

Olaf