pending 64bit version of squeak

Aaron J Reichow reic0024 at d.umn.edu
Thu Jul 3 19:33:58 UTC 2003


On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Stephen Pair wrote:

> AFAIK none of those have 64 bit object pointers...which is what I assume
> John meant when says 64 bit VM  I believe that is a problem for some
> GemStone customers who've had to employ various techniques to limit the
> consumption of OOPs (to prevent them from running out).  Also, I've
> heard of a few VW customers that keep very large amounts of objects in
> memory and approach that 32 bit limitation.

Ah yes, I think you may be right.  When I interned at Progressive
Insurance (who use VAST and GS/S for that app), they were in the middle of
a project fixing up a design error made early on: using symbols instead of
strings for things like #Y, #N and other constants.  With strings, they
were running out of OOPs and generally slowing things down...

Regards,
Aaron

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