[PD-dev] 64-bit Tcl/Tk

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 16, 2006, at 12:18 PM, chris clepper wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>

So does that mean it would be possible to make Pd use 64-bit floats  
on all CPUs without a major performance hit?

.hc


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