64 bit VM?

Stephan Rudlof sr at evolgo.de
Sun Apr 23 19:49:13 UTC 2006


Hello Michael,

preliminary note: I'm not a person able to answer your questions. But I
have some myself...

On 23.04.2006 21:25, Michael Latta wrote:
> What is the status on the 64 bit VM effort?  Is that VM ready for use? 
> I am considering a project that Squeak would be good for,

> but I need a
> very large image (20GB-2TB).

Wow!
2TB in RAM?

It would be interesting to hear more about the application...


Regards,
Stephan

> Can the garbage collector deal with this? 
> Is there enough locality for the OS virtual memory system to work?  The
> 64 bit Sun VM has been tested with 100s of GB of heap.  Has anything
> like this been done in Squeak?
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