Well here is a non-obvious solution. 
(a) take your handy Pharo image and convert it to 64 bits.
(b) take your handy 64bit VM that runs 64bit images, I believe you can build 
one for any platform. 
(c) exploit the 32 extra free bits you'll find in the header. 


On 2010-07-15, at 6:30 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

> Hi folks. I am a newbie for both research and VM. However, in the little time 
> I have been working on this, I always need some extra bits in the object 
> header to do some experiments.
> And the problem is that I always have only one :(
> 
> So I come to the idea of having a more flexible VM for the people that want 
> to experiment with it. 
> 
> The first idea was to remove compact classes. But of course, there may be 
> much more ideas or things to do.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mariano
> 

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