Thoughts on a concurrent Squeak VM (was: Re: Concurrent Futures)
Rob Withers
reefedjib at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 31 16:51:07 UTC 2007
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From: "Igor Stasenko" <siguctua at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: Thoughts on a concurrent Squeak VM (was: Re: Concurrent
Futures)
> On 31/10/2007, Rob Withers <reefedjib at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Andreas,
>>
>> 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.
>>
> I'd rather prefer to make modifications to slang to be able to
> generate VM sources for any target language/platform and keep platform
> dependent code in image instead in separate file(s). This all to
> simplify build process and to keep all things together.
You mean subclassing a Thread class? Is that platform dependent? If so, I
didn't know that and I agree with you - it's should be out in a separate
file, if used at all.
cheers,
Rob
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