On 18 Jul 2015, at 00:22, David <stormbyte@gmail.com> wrote:
I did not see any progress over the time in making a (stable) release of pharo in 64 bit flavor.
but there is, is just that things requires time :) - as already pointed, there is already a functional stackvm for 64 bits - pharo is being migrated to spur32 (which will happen next weeks) - right after, pharo will produce also 64bits versions to be tested with the stackvm - we will start work on FFI and Cog(JIT) for 64bits right after Esteban
For servers, it is a common practice (and also a good one if no 32bit executables are planned) to completelly disable 32bit support (by not compiling any library in 32bit, disabling emulation of 32bit in kernel), and also performance, as under 64bit, 32bit code runs slightly slower.
The above make enough reasons to make it interesting to have a 64bit version of pharo, but... Is it intended/in progress? Or nothing really at the moment?