Re: %#@*!@* grumble, back to installing "32-bit" apps from scratch

In article <200420091456552665%none-of@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark Conrad <none-of@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <200420091034553176%nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, nospam
<nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

3) If there were "true 64-bit" applications for Mac,

there are

I am not talking about Xcode, which is a developers tool.

I am talking about a real 64-bit application.


To the best of my knowledge, not even Photoshop has a
true 64-bit version for the Mac.

Only "some 64-bit features" are implemented on Photoshop.

<http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2006/12/is_photoshop_cs.html>


Can you name even one app that is fully 64-bit for the Mac?

Mathematica is probably the most prominent example. Adobe's Lightroom 2
is, too. But since, as I said, there's no fundamental impact of
64-bit-ness on the user experience, the only way you could tell with
most apps is to go into the application package and and run 'file' on
the executable binary. For all you know, half of the apps delivered on a
new MBP are 64-bit.

As it happens, that's not the case, but there *are* some 64-bit apps in
the stock 10.5.x install. Every app in /Applications/Utilities/Java for
example.

Reality is that the majority of apps won't benefit in any meaningful way
from being built for a 64-bit architecture. Not really enough to justify
the fact that the disk footprint will double (assuming 32-bit support is
retained) and the RAM consumption is likely to increase as well.

--
I saw a truck today that had "AAA Batteries / Delivered and Installed" on the
side. My first thought was: That's a really weird business model. How many
inept people have urgent need of skinny little battery cells?
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