Hi Charles, You may want to cross post this on the main Squeak news group: gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general where there are people that are interested in non-beginner questions.
I don't have enough experience with Squeak/Pharo to give you an answer but I'm interested in hearing the answer and in what your project is. Lou On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:51:49 -0700, Charles Hixson <charleshi...@earthlink.net> wrote: >I'm contemplating a project that would benefit greatly by a persistent >memory image, though I'll eventually (in a year or so) need the 64-bit >image, but: >The image will be a lot larger than RAM. It would include a directed >graph that had an index of a million or so entries, and most nodes >wouldn't be indexed. So in order to even load it would need to use some >sort of lazy access. And I'm not even sure that a Dictionary of over a >million items is reasonable. (Naturally none of the examples address >this problem.) > >Additionally, all of my (written) documentation is so old that it >doesn't even discuss multi-processor systems, so I don't know whether >modern Smalltalks make any use of additional available processors. > >I'd really like some advice, and possibly some references. I know that >Smalltalk has the reputation for being slow (yes, I've been reading >about the recent speed-ups), but much of what I'd need to write in any >other language seems like it may already be present in Smalltalk, so if >it would work, I'd like to choose it. But I won't be able to test this >until the application has been running for quite awhile, so I would be >very desirable that I know ahead of time. ----------------------------------------------------------- Louis LaBrunda Keystone Software Corp. SkypeMe callto://PhotonDemon mailto:l...@keystone-software.com http://www.Keystone-Software.com _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
