On Jun 28, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Tony Scaminaci wrote:
But a 32-bit GUI won't compile in 64-bit mode for
those apps that need to run in 64-bit mode to address
more than 4G of memory. So Carbon isn't a viable
platforam as more apps move to 64-bit unless we're
sure we only use those parts of Carbon that are 64-bit
compliant.
This isn't really related to Sean's point
At least until the next release when Apple
decides to deprecate the 64-bit functionality we had
before.
Not likely. The parts that are 64-bit will be that way because Cocoa
applications will have uses for them.
FWIW, I think might have misread what he was saying myself. At some
point they may drop support for 32-bit within the OS, but I think
that's a long way off. Even most Cocoa applications will continue to
be 32-bit for the foreseeable future, as 64-bit isn't always a net
performance gain. I think other issues I've mentioned will wither
Carbon before drops 32-support from Mac OS X. Only time will tell,
though.
Larry
--- Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
Since 32-bit applications can run on 64-bit Macs, I
don't follow this
logic.
Larry
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