From: Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@...>
Date: 2005-04-09T05:04:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row

Peter Suk wrote:
> 
> VisualWorks can use real threads, but only in the case of calling out to 
> a DLL, and these contexts are exempt from GC.

Well, that's a major hole, isn't it?

And I suspect today's Ruby has pretty much the same "feature" as 
VisualWorks in this regard, that is to say I could create a Ruby DLL 
that spawned real threads and let them do their own memory management.

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