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

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:38:15 +0200

On 2007-04-12 at 09:51:25 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.

Er, that is to read "... I haven't found a problem ...".

> Since when does BeOS guarantee you anything? :-)

It doesn't. Besides the file system getting awfully fragmented after a time 
and stuff like that. ;-)

CU, Ingo

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