run-queue ( -- dlist )
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Vocabulary
threads

Inputs
None

Outputs

dlist

a dlist

Variable description
Global variable holding the queue of runnable threads. Calls to yield switch to the thread which has been in the queue for the longest period of time.

By convention, threads are queued with push-front and dequed with pop-back.

Definition

USING: dlists kernel.private ;

IN: threads

: run-queue ( -- dlist )
    OBJ-RUN-QUEUE special-object { dlist } declare ; inline