Squeak and Active Objects

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel.squeaklist at bluewin.ch
Tue Mar 4 22:53:27 UTC 2003


Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 02:30 pm, Eric Merritt wrote:
> > I
> > am not sure how 'light' squeak threads are. In Erlang
> > processes cost almost nothing to spin off and the
> > system is designed completely around concurrency. I
> > don't expect Squeak to compete with Erlang or Mozart
> > in this area, but it would need to support a goodly
> > number of concurrent threads.
> 
> Squeak threads are very light.
> 
> Andreas says that he's had over 10000 of them running.
> 
Question of clarification: With threads you mean instances of the class
#Process?

-- Hannes



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