On 15 Dec 2009, at 08:32, Michael van der Gulik wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Guido Stepken <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I could make out a few "trends" in software technology since some time: >> >> * Parallel computing. (Smalltalk rather has a structure of a human brain, no >> chance to parallelize, wrong algorithms behind) > > Untrue. Smalltalk, the language, makes it really easy to write > concurrent programs. Unfortunately, there's no Smalltalk VM which can > run well on multiple CPU cores. GemStone/S comes close. Well, the debugging tools do ****, ehm, well: "printf" is the most reliable helper. At least in the context of Squeak/Pharo.
Anyway, there is a VM, not quite stable and ready for production use, but for me, it works: See: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1640134.1640149 Now it even runs on boring x86 chips, tested here with 16 hyperthreads. Well, and if there are people ask David for it, IBM Research might want to fully open source it... Best Stefan -- Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 3956 Fax: +32 2 629 3525 _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
