on 7/18/00 7:02 PM, Rob Withers at slosher2 at home.com wrote:

> ExternalSemaphoreTable

This was change Set 2307. Ensure you've got all the 2.8 change sets loaded.

Change Set:        JMM-ExtSemaBuffersAndLessInt
Date:            7 June 2000
Author:            johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com

When I was building a high performance tcp/ip test server I found a number
of problems with the external interrupt interface. The first problem is the
table at 25 elements is too small, I had test cases that triggered upto 216
interrupts. The second issue was the signalSemaphoreWithIndex: method
consolidated semaphores, so two calls on the same semaphore might become one
call. This isn't how the Semaphore logic work in the Squeak Class. The third
and more difficult problem to solve is that the code used to populate the
table and reading from the table is not thread safe.
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