Multi-threading the interpreter

Richard L. Peskin rlpcon at vermontel.net
Mon Nov 16 04:48:54 UTC 1998


At 11:47 AM +0100 11/15/98, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
> If you use TCP/IP, for example, your
>Smalltalk process will be suspended while waiting on the socket for a
>response, but other Smalltalk processes are free to run regardless.

I would have thought this was the case, but when I do an "update" (from the
update server), it looks like all Smalltalk processes are blocked untilthe
complete update is finished.
--dick peskin


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