[squeak-dev] Re: Prepare for Thousands of Cores --- oh my Chip - it's full of cores!

Peter William Lount peter at smalltalk.org
Mon Jul 7 07:44:13 UTC 2008


David Pennell wrote:
> I'm a lot more interested in architectures that scale well on both 
> multi-core machines and across blade servers, data centers and clouds 
> than in multi-threaded architectures that may (or may not) scale on a 
> single address space.   A multi-threaded image comes up short here 
> when compared to Erlang-like approaches.
>
> -david

Hi,

I'm also interested in such scaling.

There is nothing that says that a native multi-threaded image couldn't 
scale just like erlang. Just set native threads to 1 and smalltalk 
threads to 1.

Why prevent others from having their needed multiple native threads?

All the best,

Peter William Lount
[ | peter at smalltalk dot org ] value.



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