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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