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In preemptive multitasking you are trying to get all the work done as quickly as possible, but with FAIR and similar systems you want to make sure that a single client/user/resource cannot steal an inordinate amount of capacity.

I do not think languages/runtimes typically implement that kind of prioritization/limiting mechanism.



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