From: Maurycy Pawłowski-Wieroński <maurycy@maurycy.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:13:21 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: gh-144342: Use `time.sleep` in `profiling.sampling` (#144343)
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gh-144342: Use `time.sleep` in `profiling.sampling` (#144343)
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diff --git a/Lib/profiling/sampling/sample.py b/Lib/profiling/sampling/sample.py
index f657849e72bb..c6abfb1c8ee8 100644
--- a/Lib/profiling/sampling/sample.py
+++ b/Lib/profiling/sampling/sample.py
@@ -100,7 +100,11 @@ class SampleProfiler:
                     break
 
                 current_time = time.perf_counter()
-                if next_time < current_time:
+                if next_time > current_time:
+                    sleep_time = (next_time - current_time) * 0.9
+                    if sleep_time > 0.0001:
+                        time.sleep(sleep_time)
+                elif next_time < current_time:
                     try:
                         with _pause_threads(self.unwinder, self.blocking):
                             if async_aware == "all":