computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

, yield is an action that occurs in a

computer program A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to Execution (computing), execute. It is one component of software, which also includes software documentation, documentation and other intangibl ...

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 A schedule (, ) or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things ...

priority.

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Different

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s implement yielding in various ways. *pthread_yield() in the language C, a

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implementation, provided by POSIX Threads *std::this_thread::yield() in the language C++, introduced in

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. * The ''Yield method'' is provided in various

object-oriented programming Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of '' objects''. Objects can contain data (called fields, attributes or properties) and have actions they can perform (called procedures or methods and impl ...

languages with multithreading support, such as C# and

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. OOP languages generally provide class abstractions for thread objects. *yield in Kotlin *sched_yield() in the C standard library, which causes the calling thread to relinquish the CPU.

In coroutines

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s 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 Cooperative multitasking, also known as non-preemptive multitasking, is a computer multitasking technique in which the operating system never initiates a context switch from a running Process (computing), process to another process. Instead, in o ...

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In coroutines

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