Squeak and parallel computation
Ian Piumarta
ian.piumarta at inria.fr
Mon Oct 7 23:42:12 UTC 2002
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Avi Bryant wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Derek Brans wrote:
>
> > Is there much known about Squeak's effectiveness on a system with
> > multiple processors?
>
> Squeak runs single threaded, so each VM is only going to use one CPU. To
> take advantage of multiple processors you'd need to run multiple images.
Actually that's a little pessimistic. If you're running on Unix with the
display and VM on the same machine then if your VM runs on one processor
and your X server on another then you should see an improvement for
graphics-bound code.
Cheers,
Ian
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