mac VM 3.2.5b7

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Thu Mar 7 00:04:25 UTC 2002


On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:39:49 -0800 John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
>Mmm the original browser plugin code did this. it run interp.c for 
>awhile (a meaningful number of milliseconds), then exit back to the 
>caller. One of the issues with your thought is how do you know the 
>time period when there isn't anything for squeak to do? Many morphs 
>are sleeping waiting to be woken up to run step functions and the 
>like.

That's not too hard to deal with. The world's worldState has a stepList which could answer the earliest time that a morph needed stepping.

Cheers,
Bob



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