On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Ang BeePeng wrote:

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> Hi,
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> Thanks for your reply.
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> Using #forkAt: without a #wait will cause processes at lower priority halt?
> Processes with lower priority wouldn't stand a chance to run, is that right?

If there's a higher priority process ready to run, it will run, so lower 
priority processes will have to wait.

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> To make it clear, I mean I have this two run at the same time.
> [ BLOCK A ] forkAt: 20.
> [ BLOCK B ] forkAt: 30.
> BLOCK A do not get to run, if there's no #wait in BLOCK B. Am I right?

Yes, if the process evaluating BLOCK B is never suspended, then BLOCK A 
will not be evaluated.

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> Thank you so much for helping. I find it hard to learn about process from
> existing code.

There are docs available, for example: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/382


Levente

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> Thanks.
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> Ang Beepeng
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