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Subject: Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 01:11:35AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
>
> > All that Microsoft thinking (99.9%-thinking, if you find the other label
> > offensive) to avoid adding a minute, one-off change to the Go runtime?
>
> It is not a minute, one-off change.

I stand corrected.

> I don't know how to fix it to cope with tiny virtual address spaces
> like those in 9vx.  It's not something I anticipated when I wrote the
> allocator, and it's not something I really want to spend time on
> for such a tiny fraction of use cases.  We have limited time.
> We don't even support OS X 10.5 anymore.
>
That is as good an answer as I could possibly ask for.  There will be
other eyes to look at it and hopefully supplement the lack of time.

A quick, uneducated question: should 9vx be investigated instead?

> The best answer might be to make USTKTOP 1GB.
>
Where?

Thanks for replying.

++L