>From: Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: 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: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:27:50 -0700
>
>On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:07:17AM +0000, J J wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Is anyone doing anything (or know of someone who is) with native 
>threading
> > in squeak?  As computers begin to rely more and more on a multi-core
> > strategy for speed up it is going to become more and more important to
> > support native threading.
>
>Why do you say that? Is it mostly in order to harness
>multi-processors?

Because CPU's now double in speed by simply doubling up on cores.  If your 
application (or language) can only run in one thread then your speed halves 
(compared to those who don't have this limitation) every time a new core is 
released.

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