Operating System (was Storage)

Germán S. Arduino garduino at hotpop.com
Sat Mar 1 21:26:29 UTC 2003


Hi Alan:

Just a curiosity, what operating system do you use in a daily basis for your
squeak (and other) works?

Regards.

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Germán Arduino
http://gsa.swiki.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Kay" <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: Storage


> Hi Chad --
>
> My typical demo images contain several million objects and are a few
> hundred MB large. I have heard of demo images and tests in the post
> 500MB range. I haven't heard of any maxout stories, and there have
> been a few attempts at doing a 64bit address space Squeak. I think at
> least one of them worked. OTOH, there are more tradeoffs than just
> with space. What are your specific requirements?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> -----
>
>
> At 11:59 AM -0800 3/1/03, Chad Nantais wrote:
> >I am building a system from the ground-up and would like to stick to
> >Squeak as much as possible to implement the system.  The system will
> >eventually generate hundreds of thousands of instances and I will
> >need quick, query-based access to these instances.  How far can I go
> >with using a Squeak image for storage before I need to use some form
> >of external storage like Relational or Object DBs?
> >
> >Chad
>
>
> --
>




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