I'm no expert but I think it would make quite a difference to the VM in terms of data access. I guess that the changes to the VM would be pretty radical.

Max


On 14.01.2012, at 14:08, Guido Stepken wrote:

Why can't i take a SSD drive as Image? 2 GByte limit automatically falls?

Am 14.01.2012 13:10 schrieb "Milan Mimica" <milan.mimica@gmail.com>:
On 14 January 2012 12:13, Guido Stepken <gstepken@googlemail.com> wrote:

IS there still a "Image" neccessary in Smalltalk then? Or has this former "design approach" nowerdays rather significant disadvantages? (32 Bit, hanging IO during sync, GC....)


As I see it, image is not something that has to reside in physical RAM, but it is necessary in Smalltalk.


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