As I came up with this idea of scheduling described above, I bounced it off my friend Daniel Gustafsson who immediately replied “this reminds me a bit of Jeffer

As I came up with this idea of scheduling described above, I bounced it off my friend Daniel Gustafsson who immediately replied “this reminds me a bit of Jefferson’s method” (of allocating seats in parliaments). Sounds like the author of this would be interested in Queueing Theory[1] (in the sense of being interested in mathematical formalisms to explore this stuff). Apportionment[2] is also studied as a very specific thing unto itself. There's a huge mass of published research "out there" dealing with queueing and scheduling. Not all of it pertains to "thread scheduling" but there's quite a bit of conceptual overlap between something like thread scheduling and job floor scheduling. And some of the stuff on apportionment likewise probably relates at least by analogy. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_apportionment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_apportionment