<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 16.11.2009, at 23:40, Eliot Miranda wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 15.11.2009, at 03:46, Travis Kay wrote:<br>
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> I would like to see [..] 64bit (image too)<br>
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Curious: what would you do if you could have a huge image?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>One answer is what VW customers do with 64-bits. Travis & Martin can give more up-to-date answer on this but IIRC a number of VM customers had images that were pushing the 4Gb limit. One was Quallaby. They did a network monitoring app that had huge numbers of large integers in a graph representing the state of the network. EZBoard wanted 64-bit images because their message-board architecture was too monolithic. GemStone had/have customers hitting 32-bit limits on numbers of objects. So I'd sum up as large enterprise apps. Travis, Martin, what's the current demand like?</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I can't quite imagine Squeak's GC giving satisfying performance with such a large object memory.</div><br><div>
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