On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@beta9.be> wrote:

> Final question, does Pharo always block on IO? My impression was that all Smalltalks did at one time, but that some (visualworks? squeak?) had fixed that years ago.

Pharo typically blocks when the main or UI thread is doing something, which includes IO. You can perfectly do all kinds of things in other threads. Check the process monitor or try some multithreaded server.

Thanks Sven,�

I tried sending the email by wrapping the code in a block and sending fork to the block, but the image was still frozen until it returned. Is that the wrong way to do it?

thanks again.

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HTH,

Sven