Re: Universal Builds
Re: Universal Builds
- Subject: Re: Universal Builds
- From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:27:17 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 23:19:34 -0700, Wade Tregaskis said:
>'ppc64' is kind of an odd case... there's very few scenarios in which
>it's actually useful, since pervasive 64-bit support (in system
>libraries etc) didn't really come in until Intel. There were also some
>nasty practical issues with using it, I seem to remember, though the
>details escape me for the moment.
The only place ppc64 is useful is if you have an app that needs more than 4 GB of virtual memory. We ship an app that is ppc64 & x86_64 only, and the ppc64 stuff works quite well in 10.5.8. Still, it is the buggiest of the 4 Mac architectures.
Also note that 10.5 was the last SDK to support ppc64.
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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