[PD-dev] 64-bit Tcl/Tk

[chris clepper]

On 12/16/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
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> -fPIC is on by default on Mac OS X, so that's easy.  Having 64-bit
> floats is quite nice on the interface side because it means you can
> have large integers in Pd, like timestamps.


The 64 bit buzzword refers to memory addressing; double precision floats are
different than 64 bit CPUs or applications.  FPUs have used 64 bit floats
for years regardless of their addressing capabilities.
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