gwalias-bb at yahoo.com wrote:

>Dear Squeakers
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>I'm a total newbie to Squeak and therefore brimming with questions, the most burning of which is as follows ...
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Someone else may answer your more detailed questions, but I'll answer 
the easy one...

>It seems from the docs that Squeak threads are like green threads NOT OS threads. Is this true?
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Yes.  Squeak threads (actually "processes", see the Process object) all 
currently run within a single OS thread.

- Doug


>Can I/do I need to - implement locks/semaphores and/or channels for controlling the way that threads execute in Squeak?
>Is there a Squeak bottleneck problem analogous to the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) bottleneck in Python since Squeak is also interpreted (or is Squeak "stackless")
>Does anyone out there have any experience with Squeak on clusters that they might be willing to share with me?
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>Best
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>Gordon
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