[UI] Well, shall we do something then?

[David T. Lewis]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:47:18AM -0400, Bill Schwab wrote:
> Is the weak dictionary problem unique to Squeak?  Dolphin seems to get
> along just fine with MVP.  OTOH, what you describe could be a part of
> why I emulate for large grids, etc., or it could be a "SquWeakness" that
> needs attention.  I use events with the emulated framework, but there is
> also some 

I don't know about other Smalltalks, but it is an issue for Squeak.
The original update mechanism is perfectly fine by the way.

> Years ago now, I made inquires about Squeak's process syncrhonization
> objects, and scaling of threads, and was regaled with stories of great
> victories over the dragons of software complexity ;)  More recently, I
> am getting the sense that (e.g. "we almost had to rewrite in Java") some
> of this stuff is just plain broke.  It is unclear whether it really is
> sound, or was sound and has since gotten into trouble, etc.

It's not broken, it just does not scale with respect to performance, and
that fact is not well known or documented.

Dave