Squeak and SMP

Carl Gundel carlg at world.std.com
Fri Apr 24 19:07:58 UTC 1998


On 23 April 98, Patrick <patrickl at servio.gemstone.com>, wrote:
> Gemstone Smalltalk is single (OS) threaded. Multiple CPUs help
> Gemstone by allowing each process (all the gems, the stone, the
> distributed collector, the cache monitors) to run truly in parallel.

Really?  The GemStone people we've been meeting with recently clearly
told us that each connected client to a GemStone server has it's own
VM, and it's own native processor thread.  Why am I hearing two
completely different stories from GemStone on this matter?

Regards,

Carl





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