Cool, thanks.  I'll check out the thread.


>From: "Philippe Marschall" <philippe.marschall at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list"<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: Preemptive scheduling
>Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:25:23 +0200
>
>http://groups.google.com/group/strongtalk-general/msg/5e36e34c2f91eb23
>
>2007/5/1, J J <azreal1977 at hotmail.com>:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Does the Squeak VM do preemptive scheduling or regular yield style
>>scheduling.  This may sound like a silly question, but I know Erlang is
>>language that does mainly green threads and they are preemptive in nature.
>>They accomplish this by allowing a given thread to execute no more then 
>>100
>>VM instructions before it is preempted (obviously if a thread makes a
>>primitive call that is a voluntary yield).
>>
>>Does Squeak do this already?  I suspect not, and if I am correct, would
>>there be any benefit in doing something like this or would it actually 
>>slow
>>things down?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jason
>>
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