MacOSX port
Marcel Weiher
marcel at metaobject.com
Sat Jan 6 18:42:23 UTC 2001
> From: Karl Goiser <squeak at wattle.net>
> In an earlier message, you said the VM was multi-threaded. Does
that mean
> it will go faster on a dual processor Mac?
Two answers to that: no, and not really.
No, the bytecode interpreter itself is not multi-threaded, and thus
won't go any faster.
The "not really" part is that you have some parallelism between the
Cocoa-side event-handling code, so in theory you could have some
speedup, but I doubt that this would be measurable if it is present
at all, with synchronization overhead being what it is.
> With sound support and the like, I understand that it is possible
to call
> Carbon code from Cocoa code? If that is the case, maybe that is
the way to
> go until Apple gets everything finished...
I'd prefer to just use CoreAudio and other basic APIs.
Marcel
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