[squeak-dev] Re: #fork and deterministic resumption of the resulting
process
Jason Johnson
jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 17:25:44 UTC 2008
On Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Er... I can't tell if you're joking or if you're serious.
>
> I always write my code under the assumption that some day, in the
> future, some bright spark will write a better VM that will run
> separate Smalltalk Processes on separate OS processes/threads by
> whatever means, thus better utilising multi-cored or multiple CPUs.
>
> When that day comes, my code will run faster and your code will break.
If that pointless day ever comes both your code will break.
Share-state programming is just to complicated for mortals to do right
consistently.
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