Introducing Huemul

[Sebastian Sastre]

> > Based on the blue book and with some theoretical guidelines from 
> > Guille here I've was able to make a prototype of a 
> persistent ST for 
> > business objects (it didn't persist contexts and such)
> 
> That's how Gemstone Smalltalk works. It's got a transactional 
> object memory on disk (arbitrary size) and you can run any 
> number of VMs on that image concurrently ... pretty cool.
> 
> - Bert -
> 
>
Bert, yes, in fact the idea was to create the gemstone illusion because is
*the* way to work persistently with objects without too much interference.
To complete that illusion it will need to implement something that help
persisted objects to send async messages but I think it's possible. Also it
will need optimizations to archieve better performance. To give you an idea,
right now, without any optimization is better than using a remote image as
server with rST. 

The main objetive is to allow smalltalkers to use smalltalk cleanly
smalltalkishing and prevent them from entering the dark side of the use of
smalltalk relationalish for persistent concerns. Also this opens the door to
agresive horizontal scaling posibilities based on industry proven
technologies.

Cheers,

Sebastian