preemptive multitasking

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preemptive multitasking
	2006-02-24 04:42:51
On 23-Feb-06, at PM 02:30, dJsLiM wrote: >>> I was reading the section on coroutines and such >>> and was wondering if there's a way to preemptively >>;> schedule a thread >> >;> There may be support for auto-yielding after a certain number of >> message sends at some point. > > by "at some point"; meaning it is currently not supported, but may be in > the future? That's right. >>>; also, is io ever going to be byte-compiled ? (maybe it already is?) >> >> Is there is an advantage to it in a language where every op is a >>; message send? >; > That's a good question. Is there documentation on what it means exactly > to be a language where "every op is a message send" ? Hopefully the manual covers that. -- Steve