[squeak-dev] Prepare for Thousands of Cores --- oh my Chip - it's full of cores!

Todd Blanchard tblanchard at mac.com
Mon Jul 7 20:56:27 UTC 2008


I said 'pthreads', not threads. :-)

There was more at the briefing, but I'm under NDA.
I like your islands idea, I've had the same kind of thing kicking  
around in the back of my head for some time but I have no time/money  
to work on it.  It seems like the right direction though.


On Jul 7, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> Its just a press release :)
>
> We may call it thread or fiber or string, no matter what, but at base
> we having a sequence of operations which should be performed in an
> order, defined by programmer (which also known as algorithm).
> Its about human's nature and perception: we separate the concept of
> time onto three categories: past, present and future.
> So, i think the concept of 'threads' will likely to stay until last
> human lives on planet :)




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