Andrew Gaylard wrote:
What would be neat would be a page, either at squeakvm.org http://squeakvm.org or on the wiki, which would answer some of the common 64-bit questions that come up from time to time. For instance, here are some of mine:
- For which hardware/OS combinations is there a 64-bit VM?
- Does this VM run both 32-bit and 64-bit images?
- How do I convert a 32-bit image to a 64-bit one?
- My OS allows a single process to grow to 3.75GB ; if I need a lot of objects can I use a 32-bit image / VM, or must I use a 64-bit one?
- What are the advantages/disadvantages to using 64-bits?
- Why isn't there an officially-released 64-bit image?
I suspect that if this basic information was available, there'd be rather more interest, which would lead to more testing, more bug reports, more fixes, etc.
This is great information. Feel like writing it up? I'm sure Ian can be convinced to put it into the right place.
Cheers, - Andreas