Am 23.10.2006 um 21:30 schrieb Philippe Marschall:

> 2006/10/23, Cees de Groot <cdegroot at gmail.com>:
>> On 10/23/06, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > > So about 300 Euros?
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > 64bit VM?
>> >
>> You pay the hosting bills for a new box? ;)
>
> I'm willing to pay 2 GB of RAM if that's what is needed to run Pier.
> That Squeak can't handle this is a Squeak specific limitation that has
> nothing to do with the point that memory is that cheap.
> As pointed out numerous times on squeak-dev and disputed by none, all
> VM related issues can be fixed easily by just fixing the VM. This is
> no problem since the VM is open source.

If we had a transactional virtual object memory that's continuously  
saved to disk (think OOZE/LOOM), that might be viable. Perhaps with  
Magma you could have almost the same semantics, just be careful what  
you touch. But not with the current object memory. No way. Not if you  
care about the data.

It's not about RAM being cheap or not. It's about designing for the  
common and the worst case. Why you would want to bring in gigabytes  
of data if the working set is just a few megabytes is beyond me.

- Bert -