Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> It certainly wouldn't be worth the power and CPU usage 
> impact that people would inevitable get tricked into 
> causing

To clarify, only short waits such as time.sleep(0.001) would busy loop. Waits 
longer than say 50 ms would call WaitForSingleObjectEx() or Sleep() with the 
wait time minus 50, and then busy loop until the deadline. So  time.sleep(1) 
would wait the thread for 95% of the interval.

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