Squeak and native threads
J J
azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 9 06:10:44 UTC 2007
>From: John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
>Reply-To: johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com,The general-purpose Squeak
>developers list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: Squeak and native threads
>Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 18:13:17 -0800
>
>Well actually on Modern old technology based operating systems like unix,
>(ahem OSX)
> the I/O (file/sockets/sound) run under different pthreads automatically
>once the syscall is made.
Ah, ausome.
>
>VisualWorks has an interface for pthreads that allow you to move DLL calls
>to pthreads.
Dolphin has "overlapping" calls, which are probably similar.
>I'll note with a bit of work one could put the remain interp.c variables
>in the foo structure and have a VM that
>could run multiple pthreads each hosting a VM. Of course one would have to
>clean up the platform dependent code to avoid
>globals or file based static. Still the majority of work has been done,
>but there has been no interest.
Could you define "a bit of work"? You think like 3 months work for the
average guy? More/Less?
I'm sure there was less interest before because the threading world is
harder to work in then the non-threading world. But it is getting more
important every day, so I thought this deserved some looking into.
Thanks very much for your reply,
J
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