On 27 June 2013 14:48, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote: > honestly, depends a lot on who will do it. > > basically, I see 3 parts: > > 1) The Stack VM 64bits > 2) The Pharo image 64bits. > 3) NB-FFI 64 (No point on having a VM who cannot talk with the outside world) > > a future task could be create a JIT, but I complete ignorant on how > difficult/possible is that :) > > To compile the stack vm in 64 bits is not difficult, but there is a lot of > small tweaks to make... so I think 1 man-month should be enough . > To produce a 64bits pharo image we need an objecttracer.... and Guille says > with ObjectSpaces is a lot easier... but again, it has to be done... I think > another month should be enough. > > ... and with NB-FFI 64, no idea, but AFAIK is almost there (Camillo knows > more there) > also, 1 and 2 are vital, and we can tune 3 with the VM+Image working. > > That's my (very general) opinion. >
ah.. yes.. FFI too. That shouldn't be very difficult but cannot start work on it unless other two is ready. (it needs to know about object format and other stuff to generate proper code) > Esteban > > On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> we got this discussion about the VM on 64 bits so do we try to take the >> opportunity >> to get a crowdsource donate button for it? >> >> Esteban/igor what is your estimate for such task? >> >> Stef > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
