SpinWait encapsulates common spinning logic. On single-processor machines, yields are always used instead of busy waits, and on computers with Intel™ processors employing Hyper-Threading™ technology, it helps to prevent hardware thread starvation. SpinWait encapsulates a good mixture of spinning and true yielding.

SpinWait is a value type, which means that low-level code can utilize SpinWait without fear of unnecessary allocation overheads. SpinWait is not generally useful for ordinary applications. In most cases, you should use the synchronization classes provided by the .NET Framework, such as Monitor. For most purposes where spin waiting is required, however, the SpinWait type should be preferred over the SpinWait(Int32) method.

While SpinWait is designed to be used in concurrent applications, it is not designed to be used from multiple threads concurrently. SpinWait's members are not thread-safe. If multiple threads must spin, each should use its own instance of SpinWait.