Squeak and threads
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Fri Dec 7 19:23:39 UTC 2001
"Joe Graham" <joe at aiobjects.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I was curious how threads or process forking is implemented in Squeak. Do
> consistent concurrency patterns exist that can be implemented amongst
> differnt flavours of Smalltalk? If so, what are the implications as such?
>
In Squeak, a good way is to communicate with message queues, as
implemented in SharedQueue. Otherwise, you can use Semaphores as
mutexes.
I've never run into a really *great* Smalltalk concurency approach that
deals with consistency, but would love to learn!
-Lex
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