On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:08:20 +0000 Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> why you care about 64 bit ? I'm using 64bit OS for quite some time (aka years) and consider it's good sign of some technology to help me avoding fiddling with 32bit setup. > I dont think Pharo is 64 bit ready but it should be soon OK. > The big advantage that 64 bit gives is more memory access , 32 bit has > access to 2 GBs of memory. Even in memory its not such a big deal > because you can launch multiple instances of pharo and take advantage > of your entire memory , the advantage also doing like this is that > will give you the ability to run pharo on multiple cores something > that a 64 bit VM by itself cannot do anyway, pharo / python / ruby > etc. I admit that I was not thinking about those advantages... > Lack of 64 bit is definetly not a good reason not to use pharo, I agree...it is just curiosity if it is ready for 64bit... > there are good reasons not to use pharo, but this one is not one of > them. Do you mind to list some? Sincerely, Gour -- Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes. What can repression accomplish?
