18 Mar
2005
18 Mar
'05
1:44 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
Many people have gotten the idea that cooperative
multitasking is "bad",
or that it isn't "real" multitasking. In reality, there are many
scenarios in which cooperative multitasking is a better solution than
preemptive multitasking. Either type can get you into trouble if you're
not careful.
This much is true. For one, race conditions are practically non-existant if
it's designed right. And a cooperative kernel lends itself to architectures
that don't support interrupts.
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