To make it clear. Leopard (released October 2007) fully supports x86_64 executables. Given upgrade rate of Mac community I think it's pretty safe to state that majority of mac owners have x86-64 capable systems.
pavel On 01.02.2011, at 15:30, malcolm.wallace wrote: > MacOS 10.5 is still largely 32-bit. MacOS 10.6 is largely 64-bit. Both are > capable of compiling and running for the alternative word-size choice, fairly > transparently. 10.6 was released August 2009, but there are likely plenty of > people still running 10.5. > Regards, > Malcolm > > On 01 Feb, 2011,at 12:10 PM, John Meacham <j...@repetae.net> wrote: > >> Even though the hardware is x86_64, I thought the vast majority of >> macs used a 32 bit build of OSX and 32 bit programs? >> >> John >> >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Max Cantor <mxcan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > The last 32-bit, Intel Mac was the Mac Mini, discontinued in August 2007. >> > The bulk of them were discontinued in 2006, along with PowerPC Macs. Does >> > it make sense to relegate OSX x86_64 to community status while the 32-bit >> > version is considered a supported platform? >> > >> > Given that I'm far from experienced enough to be able to contribute >> > meaningfully to GHC, I'm not complaining about anyone's efforts, just that >> > those efforts might be a bit misallocated. I'd venture a guess that far >> > more people are interested in running 64-bit GHC on OSX than in running >> > GHC on what is now fairly antiquated hardware. >> > >> > mc >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list >> > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org >> > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list >> Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
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