On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:33 AM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Tobias,
>
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:21 AM Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On 07.02.2020, at 20:07, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Technically,
>> > it would be hard to do this from a single compiled VM executable, but
>> > fortunately that is not needed.
>>
>> It's possible, tho. RSqueak at one point happily read 64bit and 32bit
>> images all the same…
>>
>
> Of course it's possible.  But it makes no sense to me.  One only needs to
> convert once so why complicate the Vm including an extremely rarely used
> action that is slooow?  If we include this facility soon enough people will
> complain that launching a 32-bit image takes ages.  It is *much better
> engineering* to require people to convert once using a separate tool than
> complicating the existing production VM with a facility that is hardly ever
> used.
>

And if *you* want the facility, why don't *you* write it and test it,
instead of expecting me to add it as yet another task to my high list of
completely unfunded things to do for the VM?

_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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