[Seaside] thread-safety

[Tim Rowledge]

radoslav hodnicak <rh at 4096.sk> wrote:

> I don't mind having lots of smalltalk processes spawned but as far as I
> know there is no guarantee that if process A with priority 30 is running
> and gets preempted by higher-priority process H then, after H goes to
> sleep, A is resumed again and not some other process with the same
> priority 30. Thus I can't rely on the fact that concurrent requests will
> be handled serially.
It's pretty much guaranteed the opposite way. A suspended process is
placed at the back of the queue at that priority. If there are multiple
processes at any priority level they will be handled in a round-robin
fashion.

tim
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