On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:43 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:27:29AM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> > 2009/12/23 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:59:34PM +0100, Andreas Raab wrote:
> > >> Folks -
> > >>
> > >> We're all clear now after the CompiledMethodTrailer changes.
> > >> Can I have a 2GB changes file now? And a pony? :)
> > >>
> > >
> > > Here's the 2GB changes file patch. File it in, run tests, install
> > > with ExpandedSourceFileArray install.
> > >
> >
> > so, we're now bound to VM file-size handling limitation, or its using
> > 64-bits for file pointers?
> > 2GB is better than 32M.. but still small :)
> >
>
> Now that CompiledMethod can address unlimited address space, all
> that was required was to is to implement three small methods in
> a subclass of SourceFileArray (*). So if somebody invents a file
> system that maps to all the particles in the universe, we can
> easily expand the changes file to make use if it. And as you point
> out in another message, it should now be easier to map to things
> that are not traditional file systems at all, which does open up
> some interesting possibilities.
>

I'm not up-to-date with the changes.  Are you making sure that the new
source manager includes read-only copies of the source files so that
fetching source does not involve creating a new file?


> (*) BTW, I did not put much effort into computational efficiency
> in those three methods, no doubt there is room for improvement.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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