From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-02-18T13:50:26+09:00
Subject: Re: pulling my hair out, why won't Kernel.sleep(0) sleep?

Hi,

In message "Re: pulling my hair out, why won't Kernel.sleep(0) sleep?"
    on Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:07:28 +0900, Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> writes:

|> The documentation is wrong. 

Oops.  I will fix.

|I had started to notice that sometimes the code busy loops, and
|sometimes it doesn't, it doesn't matter whether I make any code changes,
|that turned out to be unrelated.
|
|Do you have any idea why this should be? What does Kernel.sleep(0)
|actually do?

I guess it was busy looping, but there were other threads to work
sometimes.  sleep(0) does not sleep but causes context switch.

							matz.