[squeak-dev] Embedding Squeak in multithreaded applications.
John McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Mon Sep 14 14:52:31 UTC 2009
Thank you David for the mention but Igor wrote a hydra vm which is a
vm that runs multiple vm in an Address space and provided message
queue between the threads so you could execute work cross threads
On 9/14/09, David Corking <lists at dcorking.com> wrote:
> 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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