13 Jul 21:46
Re: About Seaside 3.0
From: stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse <at> free.fr>
Subject: Re: About Seaside 3.0
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.seaside
Date: 2008-07-13 19:46:06 GMT
Subject: Re: About Seaside 3.0
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.seaside
Date: 2008-07-13 19:46:06 GMT
I understand what you mean by reliability (running 20 servers and killing the ones not running) but pay attention, squeak vms is not = to smalltalk vms. >> >> > > No, that's very reassuring. > >> Where is the problem? Is it Seaside, >> or dialect-specific? > > Smalltalk images do a lot of things as a consequence there are very > lot of things that can go wrong. Smalltalk images were never > engineered for reliability. One rouge thread can take down the whole > image. Contrast that to Apache which was engineered for reliability. > An Apache module can segmentation fault and Apache keeps running. > Compare that to the Squeak image where the UI event thread can > interact in very interesting ways with the GC. > >> I am accustomed to my Smalltalk images running >> strong when the OS is starting to crumble around them. > > Good for you. > > Cheers > Philippe > _______________________________________________ > seaside mailing list > seaside <at> lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside >
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