Time to think about parallel Smalltalk stuff

Jon Hylands jon at huv.com
Tue Jan 18 22:23:31 UTC 2005


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:10:10 -0800, Michael Latta <lattam at mac.com> wrote:

> On the practical side of things, since the Squeak interpreter is 
> basically one big C loop, how would we make use of concurrency?  Would 
> we have to fork() the interpreter for each processor...?

I think that is more or less what Smalltalk MT does. I believe it also runs
the GC in its own OS thread.

Later,
Jon

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