[Newbies] Is Squeak/Pharo an appropriate language choice?
Louis LaBrunda
Lou at Keystone-Software.com
Thu Oct 31 18:11:49 UTC 2013
Hi Charles,
You may want to cross post this on the main Squeak news group:
gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general where there are people that are
interested in non-beginner questions.
I don't have enough experience with Squeak/Pharo to give you an answer but
I'm interested in hearing the answer and in what your project is.
Lou
On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:51:49 -0700, Charles Hixson
<charleshixsn at earthlink.net> wrote:
>I'm contemplating a project that would benefit greatly by a persistent
>memory image, though I'll eventually (in a year or so) need the 64-bit
>image, but:
>The image will be a lot larger than RAM. It would include a directed
>graph that had an index of a million or so entries, and most nodes
>wouldn't be indexed. So in order to even load it would need to use some
>sort of lazy access. And I'm not even sure that a Dictionary of over a
>million items is reasonable. (Naturally none of the examples address
>this problem.)
>
>Additionally, all of my (written) documentation is so old that it
>doesn't even discuss multi-processor systems, so I don't know whether
>modern Smalltalks make any use of additional available processors.
>
>I'd really like some advice, and possibly some references. I know that
>Smalltalk has the reputation for being slow (yes, I've been reading
>about the recent speed-ups), but much of what I'd need to write in any
>other language seems like it may already be present in Smalltalk, so if
>it would work, I'd like to choose it. But I won't be able to test this
>until the application has been running for quite awhile, so I would be
>very desirable that I know ahead of time.
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