Re: [AD] yield_timeslice

[Chris <kcat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Schlyder wrote:

> User 1 shouldn't assume his code will work with any newer version of Allegro,
> though. Otherwise, how can Allegro ever be improved?

When I came newly to Allegro, I would expect code that requires Allegro 
to work. Especially for new coders, library version differences don't 
register as potential problems, or ones you're willing ot work on to fix.

> Maybe yield_timeslice()
> could be deprecated; just like the old text API...

Or yield_timeslice could continue to act as it did in 4.1.12 and 
earlier, with al_idle acting as rest(1). Both would behave differently 
so there wouldn't be any need to depricate anything. How about this:

#define yield_timeslice()  rest(0)
#define al_idle()          rest(1)

Though that would assume sleeping 0ms and 1ms would behave the same on 
all platforms.

- Kitty Cat