Thoughts on a concurrent Squeak VM
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Oct 31 16:37:33 UTC 2007
Rob Withers wrote:
> What about using C++? There would be some degradation of performance.
> However, there would be the benefit of structuring the VM classes, of
> not having to add VM as an argument everywhere, and it may even be
> possible to subclass Thread so we know where the thread-local storage is.
For the VM internally, I don't really care. Since this is generated code
there is really no difference to me. For plugins it is not feasible to
use C++ since name mangling not standardized so you can't link reliably
to C++ APIs.
Cheers,
- Andreas
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