At 7:38 PM -0700 8/4/2011, Joshua Juran wrote:
Has anyone seen the Finder using even 1 GB of virtual memory, let alone exceeding the 4 GB limit that necessitates 64-bit pointers?
No. Nothing I've tried makes it suck up anything near that much. I think my peak so far is around 420 MB. And that took a lot of externals and a lot of windows.... Re-writing Finder was about getting rid of the Carbon bits, and making it pure Cocoa, IMO. The 64bit-ness was just a bonus.
If you think about it, that makes sense. The evolution of OS X is toward pure 64-bit Cocoa. Now that Apple has dumped Rosetta, there is no reason to keep the transition API for much longer -- Carbon is doomed. Soon.
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