Re: [Pharo-dev] Announcements & inter-thread communication

2014-12-16 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Ben, This is an interesting idea - and an important topic. My main concern, that you seem to share, is that the default case should be as fast as possible and free of locking, as much as possible. (For example, I consider the #mutexForPicking used by #atRandom on Collection to be very silly, s

Re: [Pharo-dev] Announcements & inter-thread communication

2014-12-08 Thread stepharo
Thanks for your questions. My take is - I would minimize thread and fork. I have the feeling that some people forgot or never knew that when we fork a process we have to pay attention to sync points and race condition. - About Announcements - Ideally we would like to remove

Re: [Pharo-dev] Announcements & inter-thread communication

2014-12-06 Thread stepharo
Thanks for your questions. My take is - I would minimize thread and fork. I have the feeling that some people forgot or never knew that when we fork a process we have to pay attention to sync points and race condition. - About Announcements - Ideally we would like to remove

[Pharo-dev] Announcements & inter-thread communication

2014-12-05 Thread Ben Coman
_BACKGROUND_ In relation to... https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?13182 "Refactor MCFileRepositoryInspector >> versionSearchAccept:" I am reviewing... https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?13007 "Cannot integrate a slice with monticello (red square in the UI)" and in general considering how