Re: [Chicken-users] How to avoid busy waiting when using tcp-accept and threads?

[Joerg F. Wittenberger]

felix <address@hidden> writes:

> Joerg F. Wittenberger wrote:

> > no thread to ready to run.  The timeout value should be exactly until
> > the next real time event (threads-sleep!) is due, which then should be
> > delivered.
> 
> There is no exact time-slice, I'm afraid. The interrupt checks inserted
> into the code may not be distributed evenly among the compiled code.
> We can perhaps use an approximate value, though.

That's what I thought of for now.  In the longer run, the compiler
could be extended to compile into monotones (C functions which
complete in constant time).  Those could be scheduled...

/Jörg
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