Re: Native thread support

Derek Zhou via Users mailing list for the GNU Smalltalk environment <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:43:53 -0500
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On 2022-02-14 20:31:11Z, Thomas Worthington wrote:=0A> It is frustrating =
as the Smalltalk model of programming would seem at first look to be ideal =
for multi-threading: individual computing objects each pining messages to =
each other and then responding, like a cloud of VMs where each little VM is =
one instance of a class.=0A=0AIt is not that simple. If you did it in the =
naive way, like every object in its own green thread, then the performance =
would be abysmal, not to mention the huge memory footprint. Parallelism at =
too fine a granularity will not help performance but hurt it.=0A=0ADerek