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# yield()

Suspends the current task and allows other tasks to execute.

```
static func yield() async
```

## Discussion

A task can voluntarily suspend itself
in the middle of a long-running operation
that doesn’t contain any suspension points,
to let other tasks run for a while
before execution returns to this task.

If this task is the highest-priority task in the system,
the executor immediately resumes execution of the same task.
As such,
this method isn’t necessarily a way to avoid resource starvation.

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