[PD] pd on MacPro intel Xeon 64 bit

chris clepper cgclepper at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 16:43:59 CEST 2007


On 8/3/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
>
> Just curious, why wouldn't there ever be a 64-bit version of GEM?
>

Apple reversed a previous decision and killed the 64 bit Carbon C/C++ API.

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.
>

64 bit double precision floating point has been available for ages and has
nothing to do with 64 bit addressing.
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