[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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