Simulation with Erlang

[Ulf Wiger]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Ulf Wiger wrote:

>- The upcoming Erlang processor will schedule on clock cycles, which
>  should give very even scheduling

Of course, this is not true...

A process will still yield when waiting for a message, and might also
yield when entering a wait state (e.g. fetching from memory.)
This doesn't exactly amount to _even_ scheduling. However, preempting
processes based on CPU cycles rather than reductions (function calls)
seems more predictable.

/Uffe
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