What is the current state of multi-core and multi-threading in Smalltalk? I remember Squeak wouldn’t use more than one core and one OS process and would implement threads in itself, but that was a very long while ago.
This was a research project so performance on a single core was poor compared to the official Squeak virtual machine, but it was an interesting exploration of the natural fit between objects/message passing and multiple cores.
It is indeed a natural fit to many core architectures. I frequently mused about giving every message process its own thread. I’ll read the papers you mentioned.
