> Relax? Weird. "Pause" is just as weird. It might be an ia32 instruction, > so as an ia32 builtin it is a reasonable name But if you want a generic > builtin, you need a name that actually has some plausible connection with > what it does, and neither "pause" nor "relax" do that.
It's a short pause for the CPU. Both names fit quite well. -Andi
