This sounds like a good project -- keep us posted ...

Cheers,

Alan

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At 11:07 AM -0800 12/13/99, Stephen Pair wrote:
>> Hi,
>> in our project solution we need to run multiple VM (like native OS
>> processes) on one image. We consider division of an  image to several
>> (virtual) object spaces, so there would be almost no overlap
>> (concurrency) between them. We are interested if there's a possibility
>> to do this in Squeak.If yes on which platforms and whether  it implies
>> same significant changes to VM.
>>
>> martin.
>
>Having experience in attempting this in another dialect, and hearing other
>experiences, my opinion is that one should aviod it.  But, rather I would do
>something like Bob suggests (or something a little tighter than sockets).
>The ultimate goal would be to have multiple VMs (one per processor), each
>with an ObjectMemory that can communicate with the other(s).  A nice load
>balancer that could shift object closer to the objects that use them would
>also be nice.
>
>One could use the replicator and forwarder approach, but a nicely reified
>object reference scheme would make things much cleaner.
>
>- Stephen