Hi Michael,

how would you execute [ some long computation ] on another processor or  
another computer.

On another processor, Squeak does't work because its VM is neither  
reentrant nor multiprocessing-capable (sorry for using terms which are >  
30 years old ;-)

So it would be interesting to learn how you plan to offload [ some long  
computation ] to another computer (or, FWIW, to another process running on  
the same computer).

/Klaus

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:56:48 +0200, Michael wrote:

> I've been using a class called "MessageCapture" which lets you receive  
> messages sent to an object. It's caused me no end of agony trying to get  
> it working, so I thought I'd share my agony with the community :-P.
>
> Source code here: http://www.squeaksource.com/DPON.html - click on  
> "latest", MessageCapture-mvdg.2.mcz.
>
> It's released under the.. umm... MIT license.
>
> Also included is a Future class, which lets you do things like:
>
> result := Future doing: [ some long computation ].
>
> This will return immediately, forking off a process to do the  
> computation and replacing "result" with the result when it's finished.
>
> Some of the tests fail. Any hints / tips / guidance is very welcome!  
> Especially as to how to capture #== and #class. Those two messages are  
> sent by the interpreter even before doing a message lookup.
>
> Michael.
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