On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:11:57 -0300, Ramiro Diaz Trepat  
<ramirodt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does it seem that the rest of the world abandoned green threads?

Again, unproven assumption. Java is not equal to the rest of the world.

> Why didn't the Java people stick to green threads for instance?

Dunnow. Java is full of funny design decisions. Discussing them here is  
way off-topic.

> Why are same priority processes not preemtable in Squeak?
>
Good question. Probably it has to do with 'the contract' that the  
scheduler offers Squeak developers. Like the assurance that your process  
will never be pre-empted by equal priority processes, which is nice to  
know if you're feeding bits of audio and video to output devices, I guess.

Whatever the reason, several people here have argued that it is simple  
enough to work around that, if the need arises.

As usual, you have full control in Squeak. That does require a bit more  
thinking now and then, and this is one of these cases. That is a good  
thing, lest the world should be full of VB and Java code entry drones.

Try influence the scheduler in Java while the JVM is running before you  
keep wondering about Squeak ;)

Really, this horse, as far as I'm concerned, is flogged way beyond dead. I  
don't flog dead animals (I put them on the barbecue before they decompose  
;)) so I hereby suggest to stop it here...