why you care about 64 bit ? I dont think Pharo is 64 bit ready but it should be soon The big advantage that 64 bit gives is more memory access , 32 bit has access to 2 GBs of memory. Even in memory its not such a big deal because you can launch multiple instances of pharo and take advantage of your entire memory , the advantage also doing like this is that will give you the ability to run pharo on multiple cores something that a 64 bit VM by itself cannot do anyway, pharo / python / ruby etc. Lack of 64 bit is definetly not a good reason not to use pharo, there are good reasons not to use pharo, but this one is not one of them. On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 3:05 PM Gour <gour@atmarama.com> wrote:
Hello,
I was playing with Pharo some time ago, but postponed it a bit until seeing 64bit version...on Slack got info that 64bit VM is "very usable (as far as you do not use athens)" so I'd appreciate if someone can point me to some clear instructions how to install it (I'm on Fedora Linux)?
Is it possible to have PharoLaucnher along with 64bit VM?
Sincerely, Gour
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