Igoooooor where are you ? :D I am in no hurry personally , but its great to see the VM moving towards the right direction and see taking Pharo with it. And the other enhancements are really nice too.
I wonder if GC control will be given, to assign objects to different part of the memory of the VM. So this way you can have objects that are more, or higher prioritised garbage collected. Maybe this way, user/coder given more freedom to customise performance. Will that be possible ? On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On 06 Feb 2014, at 19:51, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > thats very good news , 64 bit is rather close now which mean even more C > libraries available for Pharo and loads of GB of memory to exploit. > > > yes, but just *closer*... we'll still need the 64bits FFI :) > > > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:19 PM, <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > >> Clément Bera wrote: >> >> Hello pharoers, >> >> The new Cog memory manager, Spur, is simply *amazing*. I saw at FOSDEM >> that some of you were interested in it, but unfortunately you were lacking >> information about it. >> >> I wrote a one page article that sums up Spur's new features so every >> one can know what will be better. There's no VM technical details here, >> it's just about what will change for a regular pharo user. >> >> >> http://clementbera.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/7-points-summary-of-the-spur-memory-manager/ >> >> Let me know if you think I forgot yet another feature. >> >> If you have questions, I'll try to answer, but ask Eliot, he implemented >> Spur so he can answer your questions much better than I can :-). >> >> Regards, >> >> Clément >> >> >> In what way would the speed-up for Characters being immediate improve >> Unicode performance, and/or would it be worthwhile having an immediate >> representation of UnicodeCharacters? I found Roassal to go an order of >> magnitude slower when displaying labels with Unicode (but there may be many >> reasons for that) ? >> >> cheers -ben >> > > >
