[squeak-dev] Re: #fork and deterministic resumption of the resulting process

Michael van der Gulik mikevdg at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 19:44:39 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Jason Johnson <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>

I don't seem to have much trouble with it myself.

Gulik.

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