Well, what I plan to try out isn't the only way, and probably not the
best, but I think it's a baby step in the right direction.  As Andreas
pointed out, there are other solutions that may even be better from a
high level point of view (message passing still requires careful
design).

I really believe shared state concurrency with fine grained locking
can't scale much further then it already has.  And I'm by no means the
only one.  Here is another thread on the matter:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2048

On 10/27/07, Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org> wrote:
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>  Jason Johnson wrote:
>  On 10/26/07, Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org> wrote:
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>  You're plan sounds excellent. Thank you for taking up the task of making
> Squeak VM multi-threaded with native threads!
>
>  Yes, thanks. I will need a true mult-threaded VM at some point as
> well. I just have to make it transparent to the processes running in
> the VM. :)
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>  Hi,
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>  I really do like the notion of easy multi threading - really. I've admired
> Erlang for what it's achieved in that regard for years now. I encourage
> everyone interested in that to keep persevering and searching for a
> practical way forward towards your vision.
>
>  All the best,
>
>  Peter
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