[squeak-dev] Embedding Squeak in multithreaded applications.

David Corking lists at dcorking.com
Mon Sep 14 14:33:31 UTC 2009


Jason Davidson wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> 1) Is it safe to embed a Squeak VM in a process that uses native kthreads (POSIX
> threads, win threads, whatever),

I can only respond to the first half of question 1.

I have yet to understand it fully, but I think John McIntosh runs
Squeak in a background pthread on the iPhone Squeak apps.  I don't
think he claimed it is safe (is anything multi-threaded in C safe?)

http://vst.ensm-douai.fr/ESUG2009Media/uploads/1/esug09TalkIphoneFinal2.pdf
(page 16 forward)

http://isqueak.org/



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