On Thursday 31 May 2007 6:47 am, Chris Muller wrote:
... I saw this ad on the back of InfoRag earlier today. Some IBM blade, multi-Xeon-multi-core, up to 48GB high-speed RAM, "starting" at $2K. Cool, this could probably run a lot of images simultaneously, but how far could you go with 32-bit Squeak on this?
Chris,
Look at it this way - given the huge test cycles and the number of bugs that leak past into processes with 20MB footprint, would you trust processes that need a 100x footprint? or would you settle for a bunch of co-operating processes (like Croquet) ? Those 48GB RAM continue to consume energy even when your memory usage drops to 1GB. 2K looks cheap till you get the power bill :-).
The 32-bit to 64-bit transition is going to be much painful and much more longer than the 16-32b transition.
Regards .. Subbu