On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:37:52 +0200, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
> Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>  how would you execute [ some long computation ] on another processor  
>> or  another computer.
>
> Simple. To use another processor, just modify the VM to use pthreads.  
> Easy peasy! (*)

:)

> To do it on another computer, use my DPON project. Unfortunately it's  
> current status is "completely freezes the Squeak image after 5 seconds".  
> That's a bit hard to debug.

:(

> (*) this is sarcasm.

Sure 8-)

>> 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 ;-)
>
> One day, after I've finished all my other projects, I'll be looking at  
> making the Squeak VM use pthreads so it can use multiple CPUs. Hopefully  
> somebody will beat me to it :-).

Hopefully :)

/Klaus

> Michael.
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