On Apr 13, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> A cooperative scheduler is one in which it is guaranteed that  
> another process does not run until the active process chooses to  
> yield.  This makes it easy to implement particular forms of  
> synchronisation because processes are not preemptive.

But it also makes it impossible to take advantage of multiple cores.   
Is the ease of synchronization really worth it?

Iain