On 8/2/12, koko <k...@highrolls.net> wrote: > Thanks. > > I asked the question because I saw here one time that "you don't want to be > the app causing 32-bit versions" to load. > > As long as it is not a system resource problem, then all is well as far as I > am concerned.
It depends on how much you need to pull in. Thanks to Xcode and Safari which eat up all my RAM on a 8GB maxed out system, I personally have little to spare. For small BSD tools with no dependencies on things like Cocoa, I expect it to be small. I recently tried a 32-bit Quicklook plugin. Using it causes a separate daemon process called QuickLook_legacy or something to launch. Were talking small amounts of memory fortunately, but this is another example of the kinds of side-effects. > However, I will be surprised if there is not some list castigation for being > the 32-bit app on 10.8 … LOL I think I saw somebody callout a fairly popular text editor recently. One other consideration though is 32-bit (i386) only bugs. I suspect Apple is not testing i386 much any more and I have been hit by several annoying i386 only bugs. I had one or two annoying, but non-critical ones related to CAOpenGLLayer/OpenGL/video card drivers and fullscreen transitions in 10.7. In 10.8 I just hit one in 10.8 with the network reachability APIs where nothing returned the correct results. I had already been working on a fork for my codebase that moved to 64-bit for awhile now, so this issue was the final straw that broke the camels back and we scheduled an emergency/earlier-than-planned merge to get this into our mainline branch instead of continuing on with the buggy 32-bit side of things. -Eric -- Beginning iPhone Games Development http://playcontrol.net/iphonegamebook/ _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
