On 10/23/07, Jason Johnson <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sebastian Sastre
> > PD: I've tried to imagine if this saves us from having to make code trhead
> > safe or not. I was unable to refutate this by myself so I also ask kindly
> > that the most experienced and critic minds collaborate on this regard.
>
> Us as people who use Smalltalk?  Yes I believe it does.  It doesn't
> make it impossible to make a design that has deadlocks, but imo the
> big win is that these concerns move to design time instead of
> implementation time.

Ah, and forgot to mention:  If you mean "us" as in people who write
the VM, then no.  The VM will get more complex to deal with this stuff
and have to take steps to ensure message operations are atomic.