[ANN] Hydra VM (multithreaded squeak VM) showing first results

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Wed Dec 26 08:55:10 UTC 2007


On 26/12/2007, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > For Seasiders, there now a good perspectives to have a single 'main'
> > image, which accepts incoming connections, and do load-balancing
> > between smaller images which do all dirty work.
>
> How would that work? How would you pass a request to a different
> image? How would it return the response? How would you keep the images
> in sync (deploy code to all the images)?

See, Hydra VM is just VM it's not a smallatlk application (such as
Seaside). And of course, to resolve all of the above there a lot to do
and think of.

> I still feel that for Seaside
> one Image with multiple native threads would be the best option.
>

If you talking about making single image be able to run using multiple
native threads.. oh..
There was a lot of discussions around that. And i think, that my
attempt to introduce multithreading into VM at least on a per-image
basis is a step forward to it.


-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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