[m-dev.] Application-level thread scheduling

[Thomas Conway]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:31:08PM EST, Ralph Becket wrote:
> A friend just asked me about language support for writing application
> level thread schedulers in Mercury etc.  As far as I can tell, the
> extant threading mechanisms for Mercury don't support this sort of
> thing; it's all done behind the scenes.  Would it be possible to
> support app-level scheduling policies and, if so, how much work would 
> be involved.  Apparently there is much whingeing about the fixed
> thread scheduling policies in current JVMs.

There are certainly no technical or semantic reasons not to allow
this sort of flexiblity. You have access to the source. :-)

-- 
 Thomas Conway              Mercurian )O+  
 <conway at cs.mu.oz.au>       Every sword has two edges.
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