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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