Nov. 25, 2011
9:48 a.m.
On 25 Nov 2011, at 10:31, Norbert Hartl wrote:
A very good reason to bring 64bit back into focus, don't you think?
I too think that big images are important: as other have said, RAM is cheap so there is no reason not to use it. One should not get sloppy and waiste memory, so good engineering and algorithms are very important, but if someone wants to take huge amounts of data in RAM for whatever reason, that should be possible. Being able to use a lot of memory amplifies the power of Smalltalk. At least a 32-bit VM should offer a usable memory space for the image as close as possible to its theoretical maximum. And indeed, next is a 64-bit VM/image combination. Sven