Alternative Thread Schedulers

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Wed May 30 06:21:17 UTC 2007


From: tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
>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: Alternative Thread Schedulers
>Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:48:07 -0700
>
>Not as such, no. *IF* you implement the io in such a way that it can  be 
>non-blocking (see the somewhat mouldy AsynchFile class for an  example) 
>then you would indeed make the relevant thread/Process yield  by way of 
>waiting on a semaphore.

Oh sorry, missed this part in my response.  Actually, this is exactly what I 
*don't* want.  I don't want to jump through special hoops doing IO just to 
play nice with scheduling, I want it to be that way by default like in the 
OS.  Sounds like I may have more work cut out for me then I thought. :)

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