Concurrent Futures

Rob Withers reefedjib at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 31 00:21:00 UTC 2007


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Johnson" <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Concurrent Futures


> On 10/29/07, Rob Withers <reefedjib at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is what I am trying to do with SqueakElib.  Any old object 
>> referenced
>> in the system is an eventual local ref, but the system should handle
>> promises or non-local refs anywhere.
>
> Are you going to make the "vats" Smalltalk processes?

They already are.

> Are you going
> to isolate them from other Smalltalk processes in the same image?  If
> so then I will probably have some synergy with that.

I am trying to ensure that objects in one Vat don't get directly manipulated 
by objects in other Processes.

Rob 




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