On 08/18/2010 03:56 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Also, the VM _is_ preemptive, despite the ill-named --enable-preemptive. > Semaphores (which include Delay timeouts and I/O events) can and will > preempt the running process. It is just that the VM will not preempt a > process just because it's been running for some time; that is, the VM is > not time-sharing.
Well, it really depends on your definition of pre-emption. Calling a primitive to trigger a context is something that I understand as cooperation... :) _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
