Squeak is doing a *lot* of gettimeofday()

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Wed Feb 13 19:07:59 UTC 2002


"Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> 
> Craig Latta <Craig.Latta at NetJam.ORG> wrote:
> > 
> > > ...I'll note that threading reduces polling and better supports
> > > blocking I/O.
> > 
> > 	No message, I just wanted to get that last sentence repeated. :)
> > 
> 
> 
> In the same tone, one sentence suffices: threading often introduces
> locking.
Or alternatively - watch your threads, that they may not get knotted

tim

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