[openbeos] Re: GSoC ticket #1069 (thread scheduler) application

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:18:30 +0200

On 2007-04-12 at 03:06:03 [+0200], Gustavo grieco 
<gustavo.grieco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ¿Why no realtime scheduling? I heard that its dificult to implement
> (preemption), but can be focus in Desktop use.

Low latencies are certainly beneficial, particularly for media 
applications, but IMHO real-time capabilities (e.g. guaranteed latencies) 
are not really necessary. At least I've found a problem with how BeOS 
worked in this respect.

CU, Ingo

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