[Vm-dev] Prebuilt 64-bit VM on Linux?

phil at highoctane.be phil at highoctane.be
Thu Apr 11 00:10:55 UTC 2013


GC'ing 32Gigs... ouch. Better have several 32-bit VMs in parallel.


2013/4/11 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>

>
> On 10.04.2013, at 15:46, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
> > On 10-04-2013, at 3:40 PM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan at stack.nl> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Apr 10, 2013, at 23:43 , Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Well, you only ever hear the complaints from Linux users. That's
> because almost nobody *actually* needs 64 bits yet, but Linux forces it
> onto unsuspecting users anyway.
> >>
> >> Yes. It's comparable to a mobile phone. Nearly nobody needs one, but
> they are pretty nice to have.
> >> New machines come with more memory, and being able to use it would be
> nice.
> >
> > Has anyone got even close to using 2Gb in Squeak yet? I imagine some
> alarming image load/save times...
>
>
> Load/save isn't nearly as much of a problem as collecting gigabytes of
> garbage.
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>
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