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It is well-known that although EDF is optimal for preemptive systems this is not the case in non-preemptive ones. The problem is that for a non-preemptive scheduler to be optimal, it must sometimes use inserted idle times. In this paper we show how the performance of non-preemptive EDF can be improved by using a form of lookahead that identifies when idle time insertion is necessary. Experiments show...