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

[Johan Tibell <johtib@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Arthorne wrote:
> 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.
> --

Thanks. That's all I needed to know.

- Johan