start-scheduler

Arguments: nil

Multiprocessing is not automatically started in the default Allegro CL environment.

This function starts multiprocessing, which is also started automatically the first time a process is started by process-reset, directly or indirectly (as by process-run-function). There is in fact no scheduler process. In a virtual thread Lisp, runnable processes are queued by priority and run (for a quantum of time) according to the queue. In os-thread and SMP Lisps, the OS decides what processes to run. The name start-scheduler dates from earlier releases where there was an actual scheduler process.

See multiprocessing.htm for general information on multiprocessing in Allegro CL.

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