Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:12:16 +0100, Claus Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
> 1. A thread is either resource-aware or abstracts away the details
> and difficulties of resource management.
> 2. If resource availablity is high, both kinds of threads can allocate
> (in case of memory: implicitly, as usual in functional programs).
> 3. If resource availability is low,
> - resource-aware threads receive an asynchronous exception,
> but may then proceed to allocate as before
> (until the resource is actually exhausted)
> - resource-unaware threads block on allocation attempts
>
> That's it! Not that complicated, is it?
Looks not bad.
Which resource-aware threads will receive the exeption?
How a handler thread can ensure that it has freed enough memory to
unblock threads that are blocked, or that to get an exception again
instead of reaching a hard limit and crashing?
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