On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:45:50PM -0700, Darren Reed wrote:
> With the limitations that are built in with chill(), plus the
> implementation being a busy-wait, I'd like to suggest that
> another method for "suspending" the current thread's
> operation: yield().

Romantic, but impossible: we instrument arbitrary contexts, and we have
no way of calling into the system to do much of anything, let alone
something as involved as yielding the CPU...

        - Bryan

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