My former OTI colleague Andrew “Roo” Low just wrote an interesting article about the trade-offs involved in designing a VM (and software in general) to exploit 64-bit machine architectures. Although, Roo discusses JVM implementation, he also grounds it with his experiences developing the IBM/OTI Smalltalk VM, and the lessons would be equally applicable to, say, a Ruby implementation.
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