Critical sections (was: RE: Lots of concurrency)
Stephen Pair
spair at advantive.com
Thu Oct 25 21:37:19 UTC 2001
Speaking of critical sections, some dialects of Smalltalk allow you to
write:
[ balance := balance - 500 ] critical.
It would be nice to have this in Squeak. This could eliminate the need
for a mutex instance variable in a number of places.
- Stephen
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