Multithreaded Squeak

Philip Metz metzp at interlog.com
Wed Nov 27 04:16:41 UTC 2002


Has there been any discussion of a multithreaded Squeak, i.e.
where messages can be sent and received asynchronously?
It seems to me that some applications could benefit from such
a capability, e.g. a user interface that needs to maintain near real-time
response, while the applications does intense processing in the 
background.

Is this incompatible with the basic design of Smalltalk, or just
very difficult to implement? Would it destroy some desirable properties
of Squeak's architecture?

Philip Metz



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