<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hans-Christoph Steiner</b> <<a href="mailto:hans@eds.org">hans@eds.org</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;">
<div style=""><div><br></div><div>Just curious, why wouldn't there ever be a 64-bit version of GEM? </div></div></blockquote><div><br>Apple reversed a previous decision and killed the 64 bit Carbon C/C++ API.<br></div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div>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></blockquote><div><br>64 bit double precision floating point has been available for ages and has nothing to do with 64 bit addressing.<br></div><br></div><br>