On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:08:20 +0000 Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
why you care about 64 bit ?
I'm using 64bit OS for quite some time (aka years) and consider it's good sign of some technology to help me avoding fiddling with 32bit setup.
I dont think Pharo is 64 bit ready but it should be soon
OK.
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.
I admit that I was not thinking about those advantages...
Lack of 64 bit is definetly not a good reason not to use pharo,
I agree...it is just curiosity if it is ready for 64bit...
there are good reasons not to use pharo, but this one is not one of them.
Do you mind to list some? Sincerely, Gour -- Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes. What can repression accomplish?