[squeak-dev] Re: [Vm-dev] [Squeak 4.0] Mac VM to use for 4.0?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Mar 9 04:04:49 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 07:48:44PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "Ronald" == Ronald Spengler <ron.spengler at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Ronald> Any reason I shouldn't ship "Squeak 64-32 5.4b2.app.zip" with Squeak 4.0?
> 
> If that's a 64-bit image, it won't run on my machine. :)

On the contrary, you most definitely *can* run a 64-bit image
on your 32-bit machine:

  http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/faq.html#4

IIUC, John's recent VMs can take advantage of 64-bit processing
on a Mac, as well as the more usual 32-bit processing mode.

Dave



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