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Re: why I was seeing exceptions thrown across threads -- a detailed explanation
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> Adam> Interesting. If it was cooperatively multitasked, did you have
> Adam> to hack GCC to insert a yield() after every instruction?
> No. Java doesn't require preemptive multithreading (and even if it
> did, at the time we didn't care). We task switched on mutex and
> condition variable operations, and maybe a couple other places.
Woah, so what happens if I spawn two threads and put one of them into
an infinite loop? Would the other one get starved?
- a