[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Priority of worker threads.

[John Arthorne <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Although SWT doesn't do this, the Eclipse workbench does increase the UI 
thread's priority by one (see Workbench.createDisplay).  So, if you're 
writing a plugin to the Eclipse platform, you can follow the convention 
of setting your background threads to NORM_PRIORITY.  The Eclipse jobs 
API (org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs) does this for all worker threads it 
creates.
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Johan Tibell wrote:
> Michael Forster wrote:
>
> > I think this is a case of a good reason:
> >
> >     http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2005/tt0727.html#1
> >
> > MIke
>
>
> This was what I had in mind. The java.util.concurrent package creates 
> threads with lower priority than Swing's UI thread (i.e. 5) but since we 
> (by using SWT) run our own UI thread with priority 5 instead of 6 we get 
> the problems associated with inheriting the UI thread's priority anyway.
>
> - Johan