[squeak-dev] 30 bit unboxed floats

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Mon Oct 18 23:50:43 UTC 2010


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 04:29:54PM -0700, Colin Putney wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:24 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> > In the forseeable future, object memory sizes of more than one or two GB are of no practical use.
> 
> Why do you say that?
>

Well, basically the garbage collector has a lot of work to do if
it's managing a lot of memory. Try making a large image and judge
for yourself.

Dave
 



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