[squeak-dev] Are Squeak processes pre-emptive?

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 03:21:19 UTC 2010


> If you have some task that is clearly higher-priority than some other task (eg: VoIP vs. polling an email server), then it's better to simply use a higher-priority Process rather than relying on particular scheduling behavior within a single priority-class.

Hm, agreed..  So.. what is a use-case for when you might want the type
of cooperative scheduling Eliot mentioned?



More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list