Boriss Mejias writes: > Dear hackers, > > I was looking at the incoming bugs and I moved bug #2049 to > documentation. That's the one about 64-bit in the limitation section. > Any suggestion for the new paragraph that fix the bug? :) >
It needs a new section: 32 bit Architectures The Mozart virtual machine runs only on 32 bit architectures. Maximum Memory Size On 32-bit architectures, a program can use all available memory (that is 4GB) which in the worst case (due to copying garbage collection) means that Mozart can have an active heap (that is alive data structures) of 2GB. A crude but effective way to go beyond this limit is to use the Remote module to create new sites (i.e., OS processes). This is especially effective if communication to the new processes is by shared memory. For more information on Remote, see Chapter 12 of ``System Modules''. I don't know what our policy is. Currently, the web-site documentation is a copy of the documentation from the latest release. However, lots of people are buying 64 bit processors now and linux distributions have good support so I think lots of people might get misled by the current version. I would suggest it is replaced immediately. k _________________________________________________________________________________ mozart-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-hackers
