Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher and 64bit VM

2016-12-05 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
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. > > Yeap no doubt there, 64 bit programming languages are pretty much the standard. I am definitely a supporter of moving to 64 bit and from the looks

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher and 64bit VM

2016-12-04 Thread jtuc...@objektfabrik.de
Dimitris, On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:08:20 + Dimitris Chloupis wrote: 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 m

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher and 64bit VM

2016-12-04 Thread Gour
On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:08:20 + Dimitris Chloupis 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 O

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher and 64bit VM

2016-12-04 Thread Gour
On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 07:43:51 +0100 Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > There are some download links in the first post. > > Remember, it is not yet finished, there will be issues. Thank you...Esteban Lorenzano helped me on the Slack... Sincerely, Gour -- One who sees inaction in action, and actio

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher and 64bit VM

2016-12-04 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Hi Gour, See this thread: http://forum.world.st/Breaking-the-4GB-barrier-with-Pharo-6-64-bit-tt4922305.html There are some download links in the first post. Remember, it is not yet finished, there will be issues. Regards, Sven > On 4 Dec 2016, at 14:04, Gour wrote: > > Hello, > > I was pl

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher and 64bit VM

2016-12-04 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
why you care about 64 bit ? I dont think Pharo is 64 bit ready but it should be soon 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 you