begin quoting Markus Fritsche as of Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:43:58AM +0100: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > | I'm wondering if I have the wrong idiom, or if it's a case of You > | Can't Do That So Stop Trying. > > You fork your processes at the same priority. By default, Smalltalk is > non-preemptible. They run until they yield or have finished their work.
So the forkWithoutPreemption method on BlockClosure is misdirection then? That's the _default_ behavior? Hm. I guess I assumed that Delay's wait would yield control as well. Silly me. <poke> <poke> I see. I need to configure with --enable-preemption, presumably. Thanks. -S. _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
