[Vm-dev] An event driven Squeak VM

[Igor Stasenko]

2009/11/12 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
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> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:16:44PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
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>> Instead, why not expose the new VM abilities to language, so one could
>> tell that specified callout should use a specified thread. Something
>> like:
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>> threadHandle := Smalltalk currentThreadId.
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> It is not hard to make these things accessible in the image, for example:
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>  OSProcess thisOSProcess pthread ==> a ByteArray(240 166 184 224 255 255 255 255)
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> (this on a 64-bit platform, hence the 8-byte handle)
>

its not really matters what object represents the thread handle (it
could be simple smallint).
And surely, its not that hard to expose some thread-aware API to
language level, given that VM _is_ thread-aware.
But by not exposing it, we losing another lever of control, using
which we could write a sophisticated software,
purely in smalltalk without getting down at C level.
That's what i ment to say.

> Dave
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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.