2009/2/6 Steve Wart <steve.wart at gmail.com>:
> We were thinking about using Hydra for a recent project for this reason. Our
> FFI calls were doing network I/O that made it impossible to maintain an
> acceptable frame rate in Croquet.
>
> Unfortunately I didn't find the time to dig into this but our image size was
> already a problem and I assumed that this approach would make that problem
> worse. Maybe a Pharo image could exist on one thread to do network I/O and a
> regular Croquet thread could run on another thread?
>
> I recall that Hydra was released early because it was unexpectedly
> successful, but I haven't heard much about it since then.
>

Yes Hydra FFI is multithreaded already.
But all thread safety problems which may arise when you using foreign
modules are on your hands, of course.


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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.