On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:03 +0100, stephan at stack.nl wrote:
> Igor Wrote:
> > Are you talking about porting VM to support 64 bit platform, or only
> > concerned about running 32bit VM on 64bit platform?
> >
> > In anyway, it requires some investigation. But not by me :) ,
> > currently,  i don't have 64bit PC at my disposal.
> 
> I would want to run say 8 1GByte 32-bits images. That's currently
> EUR 134 at my local shop.
> 
> Dvae wrote:
> > Some of the issues are summarized here:
> > http://www.squeakvm.org/squeak64/faq.html
> >
> > I have not looked at Hydra VM yet, but I see no reason why it should
> > create any new issues with respect to 64 bit machines or 64 bit images.
> 
> I would hope there would be less issues running multiple 32-bits images
> concurrently on a 64 bit machine.
> 
> One of the remarks on the faq is strange:
> > Why isn't there an officially-released 64-bit image?
> >    Lack of interest: most people don't need a 64-bit image.
> 
> There are lots of problems where people want to make a  
> space/time/development-time trade-off. 70 Euros worth of space
> is a silly limit.
> 
> Stephan
>