[Vm-dev] Touch/MultiTouch Events

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Sep 27 00:06:04 UTC 2020


On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 03:20:10PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> And multi-core? Well yes I suppose. Except that one can very easily spawn multiple running images using Dave Lewis' OSProcess package, including in ways that do some work and return the results.The spawning takes very little time; for example on said Pi4 it takes 39mS to do 
>     UnixProcess forkHeadlessSqueakAndDoThenQuit: [UnixProcess helloWorld]

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Or the somewhat more interesting example:

   RemoteTask do: [3 + 4] ==> 7

which completes in on the order of 10ms on my PC, and hopefully not too
much worse on Pi4. The [3 + 4] block is evaluated in a spawned image with
results returned to the parent image.
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Dave




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