[Vm-dev] 64-bit progress/plan

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Fri May 13 21:27:00 UTC 2016


Hi Esteban,

> On May 13, 2016, at 2:17 AM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> this is the status/plan, from Pharo side: 
> 
> - 64bits cog vm is already working, missing support for some plugins and most important: FFI.
> - Eliot is currently working on 64bits FFI (not full time, of course). 

The 64-bit FFI is working; at least the FFI plugin tests work.  

> - I will start working on pharo 64bits like… right now (bah… in fact in one or two weeks)
> - I will adapt UFFI to accept 64bits right after (since it was designing knowing that this was going to happen, it will be fairly straightforward). 
> 
> In summary, according to my plan: Pharo 5 summer release will include 64bits support :)
> 
> cheers, 
> Esteban
> 
> 
>> On 13 May 2016, at 05:45, Ben Coman <btc at openInWorld.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> With the release of Pharo 5, some 64-bit questions arose on reddit.
>> Could Eliot and/or Esteban report on current 64-bit progress/plan for
>> Squeak/Pharo that could be referred to from other forums.
>> 
>> cheers -ben
> 


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