I did a screencast this morning on Smalltalk processes, and it generated a few comments. Given that, I figured it was worth following up. The basics:

• Smalltalk Processes are lightweight - i.e., they are managed within the single OS process running the Smalltalk image
• You can create OS level threads by making external API calls - assuming that it's safe to call those APIs in a threaded fashion

I've gone into a lot more detail on this stuff - head on over to Smalltalk Daily, and start with this page of screencasts on the processes model. If you have questions on any of that, shoot them my way.

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