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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Task with access to itself?
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Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

>>   2) Control over which order the worker tasks are activated in.
>
> Why? They're all identical. In our case, we only allocate a task when
> there's a job to do and no existing task to handle it; such tasks are
> of course activated in the order they're created.

Because I prefer to activate the most recently used task first, as it is
likely to be the one which is "closest" to a CPU (i.e. least likely to
be swapped out to disk).

Greetings,

Jacob
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