For me this are good news. Thank you for your work. Cheers. Uko
On 14 May 2014, at 21:43, Clément Bera <bera.clem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > The work to port Pharo to 64 bits has started. > > The new memory manager Spur will be ported to Pharo 4 alpha next week and it > supports 64 bits (this is fresh news, it has been decided 3 hours ago). This > was one of the main issue for the 64 bits port. > > Now the status is to finish to port the memory manager and to compile the VM > for 64 bits. There is a bit a debugging to do as even if the 64bits Spur > memory manager is implemented it has never been debugged. In addition, some > plugins are 32 bits dependent and that needs to be fixed. > > At this point, which should be in the late summer if Esteban and Eliot are > very productive, we should have a 64 bits stack VM. > > Then there are 2 remaining points, one is to port the JIT to support x86_64 > bits and the other is to add faster floating pointer in 64 bits. Adding fast > floating pointer is important as 64bits images are typically 30% slower than > 32bits ones due to Pharo computation being mainly pointers computation, and > that manipulating 64 bits is more expensive than 32 bits. > > At this point, which is probably around christmas if everything goes well, we > should have a 64bits Cog VM. > > Now this is the optimistic planning. It may be that we have the 64 bits Stack > VM for Christmas and the 64 bits Cog VM in a year. It depends if you prefer > the optimistic or the pessimistic planning. > > > > Right now, people have issue with 64bits vs 32bits in Linux (I saw several > reports on the mailing list) but it seems it is not a problem in Windows and > Mac. Microsoft and Apple may be providing better support for 32 bits. I don't > know. > > > > I don't know about the working keypad. Perhaps someone more aware could help. > > > 2014-05-14 21:08 GMT+02:00 Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire.fernan...@gmail.com>: > Yesterday my boss asked me to see DrGeo on his Ununtu 14.04LTS 64 bits > machine. I could not get it working, 32 bits compatibility package to > run 32bits application on 64bits system is gone, you have to find out > manually the needed 32 bits libs and install it. > > Now I don't want to face this situation anymore, I want to provide with > DrGeo a VM for each word size, compiled with not recent libc et al. and > a working keypad. It is the bare minimum to not look ridiculous. > By the way, the situation would have been equally ridiculous showing Pharo3. > > Now, I wonder, how is deal the 32bits/64bits situation on Windows and > Mac OSX? > > Hilaire > > > -- > Dr. Geo http://drgeo.eu > > >
