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From: wayne@schaefer.MATH.WISC.EDU (Rick Wayne)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Parallelism and OOPSs
Keywords: Coupling, Decomposition, Networks
Message-ID: <477@schaefer.MATH.WISC.EDU>
Date: 4 Oct 89 21:41:06 GMT
Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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i've done some fiddling with Smalltalk/V.  there you have my entire expert
status on OOPSs.

since objects decompose so nicely into independent entities (at least 
abstractly), wouldn't this provide an excellent hook for introducing 
parallelism?  could be loosely or tightly coupled; message passing would
either be memory-to-memory transfer or network sends.

this sounds so obvious that i'm sure SOMEBODY must be doing it (chorus of
"that's the whole idea!" in the background), but in all the seminars i've
sat through, this specific idea was never raised.

i'm so interested in the answer that i've risked my lucrative patent rights
by disclosing this idea.  comments?

rick
wayne@wisplan.uwex.wisc.edu