Posted by Stefan Marr on Nov 05, 2010; 8:29am
URL: https://forum.world.st/RoarVM-The-Manycore-SqueakVM-tp3025321p3028270.html


Hi David:

On 05 Nov 2010, at 05:07, [hidden email] wrote:
>>> So it looks like you have to use a power-of-two cores?
>> Yes, that is right. At the moment, the system isn't able to handle other numbers of cores.
> Hold on... don't we run on 56 cores on Tilera?
Yes, however, on OSX and standard Linux there are problems with certain configurations.
If I remember correctly mmap or something fails with certain kinds of requests.
Something related to the number of cores.

Have it on my todo list.

Best regards
Stefan


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