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Oct 3, 2005
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Consequences of the scheduling algorithm: Low priority threads can run even when higher priority threads are running

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Just because you have a thread running at a higher priority level doesn't mean that no threads of lower priority will ever run. Occasionally, I see people write multi-threaded code and put one thread's priority higher than the other, assuming that this will prevent the lower-priority thread from interfering with the operation of the higher-prior...

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