<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just curious, why wouldn't there ever be a 64-bit version of GEM? I've been thinking that a 64-bit build of Pd-extended would be nice to have, especially because using 64-bit floats as Pd's native format would make it much more flexible. You could represent UNIX timestamps properly, for example.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>.hc</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 3, 2007, at 1:19 PM, chris clepper wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I have at least 4 MacPros running GEM here right now. Assuming you want to run OSX there aren't that many problems related to the Intel chips beyond the general decrease in performance over the previous G5/PPC 970. <BR> <BR>There is no 64bit version of GEM for OSX and there never will be one. <BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 8/3/07, <B class="gmail_sendername"><A href="mailto:bigswift@cox.net">bigswift@cox.net</A></B> <<A href="mailto:bigswift@cox.net"> bigswift@cox.net</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">hi<BR><BR>i just received a new g5 and wanted to get tips and pointers and caveats regarding pd on this machine, ideally it will run pd,Gem and pdp/pidip etc.. <BR><BR>links, frozen warnings etc... anticipated<BR><BR>pp<BR><BR><BR>Patrick Pagano<BR>Sound and Light Technologist<BR>School of Theatre and Dance<BR>University of Florida<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________ <BR><A href="mailto:PD-list@iem.at">PD-list@iem.at</A> mailing list<BR>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <A href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> </DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:PD-list@iem.at">PD-list@iem.at</A> mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <A href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. - the hacker ethic</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>