On 10/24/07, Sebastian Sastre <ssastre at seaswork.com> wrote:
>
> So I'm stating here that in a smalltalk image of the future *every object
> should have a process*. Every instance. All of them.

That is an interesting idea.  That would open a door to a new way of
Garbage collection, because it can then be tied to the exit of a
process.

> Said that I return to the problem you stated about the need of copy copy
> copy, saying that this premise changes things and you don't need to copy
> anymore because a VM like that, no matter who or when, an instVar of an
> object is to be modified it will provide you of guarantee that the write
> will be made by the process that corresponds to that instance.

Yes, in such a system, you don't need to copy because all that gets
passed around are references to processes.