Re: How to run tasks with priority?

"George George via JavaKB.com" <forum@xxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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> Thanks Boudewijn,
>
> Your reply is very helpful! I found that if I use priority feature of Java
> thread, then I can only have (MAX_PRIORITY - MIN_PRIORITY) different
> priorities, which may limit my application. I am wondering whether there
> are any alternate solutions which may have more different priorities.

It sounds like you need to use synchronization, not priorities. With
synchronized{} blocks you can make threads wait for eachother at fixed points.

>> You can accomplish this behaviour with the Thread#yield
>> () method.
>
> How can I utilize utilize yield? Could you please give me a simple sample?

If two threads have the same priority and execute the same code, adding a
yield call to one of those, could make it run about twice as slow.


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