Hi,

Intel among others such as Tilera and NVidia are telling us - yes us 
smalltalkers - to prepare for tens, hundreds and thousands of cores on a 
single chip. It's up to us to bring this power to our end users - and 
ourselves too!

Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores"
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/07/02/1833221.shtml
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-9981760-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

What would be nice for a new version of squeak/croquet:

HydraVM rewritten in Igor's new improved lambda+slang+exupery bypassing 
C altogether yet interfacing and generating C or Java or Javascript or 
Flash or ... as well for those deployment scenarios where that makes sense.

To take advantage of multi-core what is needed is real native 
multi-threading per virtual machine + image not simply one native thread 
per image. Both are good for various application scenarios. Remember 
that a real multi-native threaded image can always just run one native 
thread if you want it too while a single native thread virtual machine + 
image will not run multiple native threads in the same image space. Sure 
multiple images in one program memory space is nice for some scenarios. 
I like that too and desire the option to deploy that way with multiple 
native threads per image space in one program memory space.

All the best,

Peter