On 20 Sep 2011, at 17:56, Larry White wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Final question, does Pharo always block on IO? My impression was that all 
> > Smalltalks did at one time, but that some (visualworks? squeak?) had fixed 
> > that years ago.
> 
> Pharo typically blocks when the main or UI thread is doing something, which 
> includes IO. You can perfectly do all kinds of things in other threads. Check 
> the process monitor or try some multithreaded server.
> 
> 
> Thanks Sven, 
> I tried sending the email by wrapping the code in a block and sending fork to 
> the block, but the image was still frozen until it returned. Is that the 
> wrong way to do it?
> 
> thanks again.

I need more information and code that I can execute in order to try to help you.

Sven

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