Re: Process & Fork

Thanks for the explanation, Tommy.

I did try it with a delay instead of yielding in the main process, but got
the same hanging behavior.

I was looking at the implementation of Delay, and suspect the
non-synchronized queue used there might be causing this problem.

On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 at 17:35 Tommy Pettersson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Quenio,
>
> I can't speak for GNU Smalltalk, but yield in general is a tricky business,
> and does often not mean what one might think. A good way of thinking of
> yield is: "Hi scheduler, I'm not done yet, but if you have something
> important to do, I will yield now". In particular, yield MAY be a no-op, so
> never put it in a busy-wait loop.
>
> Anyways, puting a delay in the main process makes the two processes take
> turns on the cpu. This may be a bug, a feature, or per design, I have
> really no idea. Just don't ever put yield in a busy-wait loop, and
> everyone will be fine. :-)
>
> /Tommy
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