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Re: The Manager vs. SwitchIt!

khym@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang) writes:

>Probably because in general, you can't interrupt a tool call in the
>middle of what it's doing and then start up another tool call and
>expect things to work right... And a lot of tool calls take much
>longer than the 1/60th of a second timeslice that GNO uses.

  Dave,
  GNO doesn't allow tool calls (except the rewritten TextTools) to be
preempted.
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