[squeak-dev] 30 bit unboxed floats

Andres Valloud avalloud at smalltalk.comcastbiz.net
Wed Oct 20 00:09:25 UTC 2010


I think our usual assumptions is that this is never the case, IOW: we 
always assume the whole image fits in RAM.  GemStone is a different 
story, but I think they do special things in this regard (I don't know 
what they are exactly, though).

On 10/19/10 16:03 , Igor Stasenko wrote:
> Existing garbage collectors require far more pages than the
> application’s working set and touch pages without regard to which ones
> are in memory, especially during full-heap garbage collection.



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