Abstract
This chapter presents and explains a short example of how concurrency can be accomplished within Smalltalk. It also considers lazy evaluations (i.e. you only perform the evaluation if you absolutely have to), futures (you start an evaluation now which you will need later) and persistence.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1997 Springer-Verlag London Limited
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Hunt, J. (1997). Concurrency in Smalltalk. In: Smalltalk and Object Orientation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0961-7_31
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0961-7_31
Publisher Name: Springer, London
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-76115-0
Online ISBN: 978-1-4471-0961-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive