[X4U] Tiger & 64-Bit Applications...

[Stroller]

On Apr 15, 2005, at 10:13 am, DZ-Jay wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2005, at 13:02, Michael Winter wrote:
>>
>> IMO 64 bit only does two things. 1) Increases the amount of memory 
>> that can be addressed and 2) makes it easier (and faster) to handle 
>> data that does require more than 32 bits. Tiger does all that when 
>> necessary.
>
> I read somewhere, from an Apple developer, that the internal graphics 
> engine, math APIs, and things like that will use 64-bits -- you know, 
> the bits that actually could use it -- but that the general 
> applications that come with OSX (Mail, Safari, etc.) will not.

This posting seems quite informative, although I have to confess I 
don't understand all the implications:
<http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=145810&cid=12212271>

Stroller.