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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Sporadic process issue on Magritte tests
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Sporadic process issue on Magritte tests |
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Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:08:06 +0200 |
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On 16/04/2015 13:06, Holger Freyther wrote:
> > The point of using absolute deadline is exactly to match deadlines as
> > close as possible ("perfect" if the syscall ultimately lets you specify
> > an absolute deadline). Relative deadlines become less and less accurate
> > the more load you have, because you can be preempted away between the
> > computation of the deadline and the setting of the timer.
> >
> > This is particularly relevant with cooperative multithreading such as
> > Smalltalk’s.
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> Okay but the current implementation appears to be improvable.
Yes, there was a bug. :)
Paolo