On 23 April 98, James <james at clyde.as.utexas.edu>, wrote:

> At 10:02 AM -0700 4/22/98, Jim Ravan wrote:
>>One of my interests in Squeak is to implement SMP support. The eventual
>>target application is realtime generation of music. Can someone point a
>>newbie at existing research in this area? The target hardware would
>>probably be a two-processor Intel P2 box.

> The hard part will be SMP AND real time GC. I know of no good SMP
> and real time garbage collection algorithm. The only one that I've seen
> is in a paper by Herlihy and Moss, but would be very inefficient  since
> it requires making a copy of an object every time it is modified.
> Thus would only seem to be useful for functional languages.

How does GemStone Smalltalk do it?

Carl