On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 14:36, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > No doubt your sleep code works just fine. > > I'm not saying the sleep command doesn't work. > > I'm saying the sleep command doesn't release unused cpu cycles for other > threads/programs to use.
No, fpc uses nanosleep() inside sysutils.sleep() which is documented to suspend execution (i.e. no busy waiting) so the kernel will switch to another thread/process. Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
