[Seaside-dev] Re: WAContext Refactoring

[Lukas Renggli]

> GemStone does not have thread locals ... I imagine that it won't be too
>  hard to add, but it will take vm modifications...

But a process is also an object, isn't it? Philippe and I had a look
at the GemStone code and thought that it should be feasible somehow to
attach additional state to a Smalltalk process. This state doesn't
have to persist, it just lives as long as a request is handled.

The reason why we can't use a dynamic variable is because dynamic
variables are bound to the execution stack and therefor captured and
restored together with the continuations.

Lukas

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