Running multiple VM on one image

Martin Luptak mlu at whitestein.com
Tue Dec 14 15:17:30 UTC 1999


Martin McClure wrote:

> At 6:03 AM -0500 12/14/99, Stephen Pair wrote:
> >IIRC GemStone has
> >(or had) some similar issues (but I think they used a separate object memory
> >for each user as well).
> >
>
> GemStone Smalltalk has a shared object space, but each user gets a
> separate transactional view of the object space. You only see other
> users' changes to objects after they've committed their transaction,
> and after you've committed or aborted your transaction. Each user
> gets their own VM, which has some private object space, but most
> objects are accessed from memory shared by multiple VMs.

Yeah, that fit the idea.
Martin.





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