There is an article by David Ungar in the ACM archives about a
multiprocessor Smalltalk. I didn't find it anywhere else on the web and I
can't get the ACM stuff so I don't know how useful it would be.
Multiprocessor ST would be really interesting regarding all new G4s.

Torsten

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Alan Grimes wrote:

> I think the process object is what you are looking for.
>
> While squeak does run several environment level threads, the interpriter
> itself _IS NOT_.
>
> This doesn't matter much on single proc machines but sucks for dualies
> and the new P4s...
>


> Philip Metz wrote:
> >
> > Has there been any discussion of a multithreaded Squeak, i.e.
> > where messages can be sent and received asynchronously?
> > It seems to me that some applications could benefit from such
> > a capability, e.g. a user interface that needs to maintain near real-time
> > response, while the applications does intense processing in the
> > background.
> >
> > Is this incompatible with the basic design of Smalltalk, or just
> > very difficult to implement? Would it destroy some desirable properties
> > of Squeak's architecture?
> >
> > Philip Metz
>
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