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> Attached is the docs patch. I'll commit everything to SF as soon as
> their CVS services are restored.
+ Gives up some CPU time. This can be useful in order to "play nice"
+ with other processes, or simply to make the CPU usage drop. This will
+ look better to users, and also does things like saving battery power
+ and making fans less noisy.
This is enough I think.
+ On systems that support it, it works by
+ giving up the rest of the current scheduler timeslice. On other systems,
+ it may sleep for a short while to achieve the same effect.
This is not exact anymore, so we need to drop it.
OK with that change.
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Eric Botcazou