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From: edwards@world.std.com (Jonathan Edwards)
Subject: Re: MFC Multithreading and Enfin Smalltalk 95
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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 00:07:44 GMT
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In article <3f706e$ja1@news1.delphi.com>,
Jeff Sutherland <jsutherland@BIX.com> wrote:
[ Explains that MFC 3 is multithreaded]

But what will ENFIN's support of multithreading be? Chose one:

0. No support whatsoever, like ParcPlace
1. Putting the user interface in a separate thread from Smalltalk code, like
Digitalk.
2. Allowing C API's to be called in other threads, like IBM
3. True multithreading, where two threads of Smalltalk code could run in
parallel on a multiproccesor. QKS has made some vague statements about this,
but has been unwilling to be specific about it. This is actually a very
hard problem to solve in the presence of garbage collection.

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