On 30/10/2007, Giovanni Corriga <giovanni at corriga.net> wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 29/10/2007 alle 13.34 -0800, Andreas Raab ha scritto:
>
> > Not "all messages sends". Only messages between concurrent entities
> > (islands). This is the main difference to the all-out actors model
> > (where each object is its own unit of concurrency) and has the advantage
> > that you can reuse all of todays single-threaded code.
>
> Just out of curiosity, how much work do you think it would be necessary
> to port the Islands system to the standard Squeak image?
>
>         Giovanni
>
This is what i mean. There is a BIG difference between concurrency
(parallel execution with shared memory) and distributed computing.
An 'islands' is fitting good for distributed computing, but does they
fit for concurrent parallel execution? I doubt.

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