Cooperative vs preemtive scheduling of virtual theads

[Andrew Haley]

On 09/06/2020 11:41, Ron Pressler wrote:

> However, if you can find an example where it, or some other platform
> mechanism, does introduce new issues if it were made a scheduling
> point, we will certainly consider promising it won't be.

One day we surely want the Java runtime, class loading included, to be
written in Java. Therefore, we should be ready for all blocking events
in the VM one day to be scheduling points. No?  It's not a good thing
that class loading blocks a carrier thread, more an artifact of the
current implementation.

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