On 16/04/2015 13:06, Holger Freyther wrote:
> > The point of using absolute deadline is exactly to match deadlines as
> > close as possible ("perfect" if the syscall ultimately lets you specify
> > an absolute deadline).  Relative deadlines become less and less accurate
> > the more load you have, because you can be preempted away between the
> > computation of the deadline and the setting of the timer.
> > 
> > This is particularly relevant with cooperative multithreading such as
> > Smalltalk’s.
> 
> Okay but the current implementation appears to be improvable.

Yes, there was a bug. :)

Paolo

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