Multithreaded Squeak

Martin Drautzburg martin.drautzburg at web.de
Wed Nov 27 07:18:28 UTC 2002


Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> writes:

> [ something doSomethingVeryTimeConsuming ] forkAt: Processor 
> userBackgroundPriority.

I always wondered: is this preemtive ? I mean can a process run into a
loop and lock the system preventing any other process to run or will
it just eat up CPU and slow down the system ?



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