Hi Andy, > On 21 Dec 2014, at 20:00, Andy Burnett <andy.burn...@knowinnovation.com> > wrote: > > I am interested in building a system that uses co-operating agents to parse > events. > > Is Pharo a suitable system for this? I ask because given that it is single > threaded, I wondered whether running multiple agents would present any sort > of problem. Has anyone got experience of building something like this? And, > if so, what did you use for your basic queue? Is there a suitable FIFO style > queue within Pharo? > > Cheers > Andy
The standard VM is using a single OS process (and thus uses a single core) but manages its own user land threads called Processes. The cool thing is that you can read/understand all this threading code (ProcessorScheduler, Process, Semaphore, Monitor, Delay, ..). There few if any limits to the amount of processes you can have. To answer the second question: I believe SharedQueue is the class you should be looking at (first). Sven
