[squeak-dev] Embedding Squeak in multithreaded applications.

Greetings!

1) Is it safe to embed a Squeak VM in a process that uses native kthreads (POSIX
threads, win threads, whatever), and does Squeak have anything like Python's
global interpreter look?

2) Is it possible to have mmultiple VM instances in a multithreaded process,
each VN tied to a kthread?

Thanks.

Cheers,
Jason

Jason Davidson wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> 1) Is it safe to embed a Squeak VM in a process that uses native kthreads (POSIX
> threads, win threads, whatever),

I can only respond to the first half of question 1.

I have yet to understand it fully, but I think John McIntosh runs
Squeak in a background pthread on the iPhone Squeak apps.  I don't
think he claimed it is safe (is anything multi-threaded in C safe?)

http://vst.ensm-douai.fr/ESUG2009Media/uploads/1/esug09TalkIphoneFinal2.pdf
(page 16 forward)

http://isqueak.org/

Thank you David for the mention but Igor wrote a hydra vm which is a
vm that runs multiple vm in an Address space and provided message
queue between the threads so you could execute work cross threads

On 9/14/09, David Corking <[hidden email]> wrote:

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