On 25/12/2007, stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse@free.fr wrote:
There is more and more pressing matters, because we are standing at rising multi-core era. So, we need tools for fully utilizing their powers.
yes! So what would be a typical set up of multiple images from your perspective?
There can be a wide range of deployment models, depending on intents. As i said, its a general purpose VM, and therefore things you can do with it depends on your imagination :)
For Seasiders, there now a good perspectives to have a single 'main' image, which accepts incoming connections, and do load-balancing between smaller images which do all dirty work. You could have much finer control on things comparing to running multiple squeak processes.
I think, that Andreas having own ideas how to use new VM, and i think it's better ask him to describe where it will be used.
But things are more or less the same: distribute the tasks between multiple images, making them performing in parallel.