<div dir="ltr">GC'ing 32Gigs... ouch. Better have several 32-bit VMs in parallel.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/4/11 Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span><br>
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On 10.04.2013, at 15:46, tim Rowledge <<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org">tim@rowledge.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 10-04-2013, at 3:40 PM, Stephan Eggermont <<a href="mailto:stephan@stack.nl">stephan@stack.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Apr 10, 2013, at 23:43 , Bert Freudenberg wrote:<br>
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>>> Well, you only ever hear the complaints from Linux users. That's because almost nobody *actually* needs 64 bits yet, but Linux forces it onto unsuspecting users anyway.<br>
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>> Yes. It's comparable to a mobile phone. Nearly nobody needs one, but they are pretty nice to have.<br>
>> New machines come with more memory, and being able to use it would be nice.<br>
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> Has anyone got even close to using 2Gb in Squeak yet? I imagine some alarming image load/save times...<br>
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Load/save isn't nearly as much of a problem as collecting gigabytes of garbage.<br>
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