Oh, I know that. That's why I said "first look". Second look isn't so nice and by the third you're running screaming from the room.
Derek Zhou via Users mailing list for the GNU Smalltalk environment <help-smalltalk@gnu.org> writes: > On 2022-02-14 20:31:11Z, Thomas Worthington wrote: >> 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. > > It 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. > > Derek
