Timer vs Scheduler - What's the difference?
timer | scheduler |
Someone or something which times.
A device used to measure amounts of time.
Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time.
A person or device that determines a schedule, that determines the order that tasks are to be done.
(computer science) An operating system component responsible for allocating several resources, most commonly the use of processors by different concurrent processes or threads.