Re:Learning Smalltalk from “Pharo by Example”
by Mikeb85 on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:17AM
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Smalltalk uses multiple cores by forking processes and passing messages, just like JavaScript, Ruby, Python, etc...
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Re:Learning Smalltalk from “Pharo by Example”
by Rockslide on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @07:26AM
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It is true that you can fork in Smalltalk. It is not true that such a fork results in multiple cores being used by the same VM concurrently. At least not in any of the "mainstream" Smalltalk implementations I know (which would be Squeak, Pharo and VisualWorks).