From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-01-11T07:51:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Before I create a ticket


On Jan 10, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Is it reasonable to expect the following to produce differing counts  
> in the result array?
>
> counts = [ 0 ] * 10
> Thread.abort_on_exception = true
> 10.times do |i|
>  thread = Thread.new(i) do |index|
>    Thread.current.priority = index
>    loop do
>      counts[index] += 1
>      Thread.pass
>    end
>  end
> end
> sleep 1
> p counts
>
>
> I get  [6176, 6173, 6167, 6173, 6174, 6175, 6177, 6178, 6174, 6177]
>
> ruby 1.9.0 (2008-01-10 revision 0) [i686-darwin9.1.0]


maybe throw a 'reverse' in there somewhere - right now it seems like  
each thread would be afforded about the same amount of time before  
being superceded - excepting the last one.  it'd be interesting with

   Thread.current.priority = 10 - index

cheers

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