Squeak and Active Objects

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Tue Mar 4 23:00:47 UTC 2003


On Tuesday 04 March 2003 02:53 pm, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> 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?

Yes

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