From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-08-27T04:52:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] EventLoop 0.0.20050825.1600

Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> writes:

> You might also ask yourself, do you really *need* to have
> the scheduler arbitrarily switch contexts back and forth?
> Do your event handlers really take that much time to run?
> If so, fine.  Otherwise, why not have determinism instead?

To nitpick, neither pre-emptive threading nor cooperative threading
(of which explicit event handling loop is a form of) has anything to
do with determinism.

It is what is being executed in that thread that determines whether it
is deterministic or not.

YS.