Minnow WIKI Migration

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Tue Oct 24 18:47:43 UTC 2006


2006/10/23, Michael Rueger <m.rueger at acm.org>:
> Philippe Marschall wrote:
> > 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.
>
> So I'm assuming you just volunteered to fix these issues so we can
> switch to Pier in a few weeks?

That would be a waste of time because in ten years we will have a new,
fixed and cool VM.

Philippe



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