On Nov 11, 2003, at 6:40 AM, Eric Merritt wrote:

>> PS someone might suggest a change to resume: which
>> might allow lower
>> priority threads a chance to run from time to time
>> to
>> prevent a runaway high priority thread?
>
>  That makes decent sense. Although you would probably
> not want to interupt truly high priority threads.
> There would probably need to be an upper range of
> priorities that you would have to just let run.
>

I think there is lots of papers on operating system thread dispatching.  
The model there is
very primitive, a much intelligent system would ensure all threads get  
to run at some point.
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