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Yield (multithreading)

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In computer science, yield is an action that occurs in a computer program during multithreading, of forcing a processor to relinquish control of the current running thread, and sending it to the end of the running queue, of the same scheduling priority.

Examples

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Different programming languages implement yielding in various ways.

In coroutines

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Coroutines are a fine-grained concurrency primitive, which may be required to yield explicitly. They may enable specifying another function to take control. Coroutines that explicitly yield allow cooperative multitasking.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "pthread_yield". IBM.
  2. ^ "Thread.yield". Javamex. Retrieved 24 June 2011.