Title:

yield() - causes the calling thread to temporarily give up execution to allow other threads to compete for CPU resources.

Usage:

yield()

Side Effect:

The calling thread is rescheduled so as to remove it from the active thread and another thread becomes active, when possible.

See Also:

suspend()

Examples:

thread A	thread B
i = 0 while(T) { i = i + 1 cat("Thread A",i, "\n") yield() }	i = 0 while(T) { i = i + 1 cat("Thread B",i, "\n") yield() }

In the absence of other threads, this will alternate between threads due to the yield() command and the output will be something like

 Thread A 1
 Thread B 1     
 Thread A 2
 Thread B 2
 Thread A 3
 Thread B 3
  ...
  ...     

Without the yield, we might see runs of one thread, such as

 Thread A 1
 Thread A 2     
 Thread A 3
 Thread B 1
 Thread A 4
 Thread B 2
  ...
  ...     

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