on 3/3/06 10:13 PM, Tony Spencer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fully expected. I don't know how much Rosetta is a total environment > and how much it goes outside, but it's very reminiscent of 68k>PPC, > when the OS was made native bit by bit, one of the last being the > Finder. > > Since OS X is immensely more complicated than OS 7, I don't expect it > all to be native. But of course this is an issue. If there are bugs > in Rosetta and any calls it makes to emulated vs native OS, those > will obviously filter down to any app, not just Rb. And do we know > which calls/frameworks are native and which are emulated?
Due to the way Rosetta works all of the code that a Rosetta app runs has to be emulated. You can't have a mixed architecture application. This means that all of the OS frameworks are Universal Binaries. That's why the Intel patches are twice the size of the PPC ones. > I'm sure Apple's attitude will be to not bother fixing anything, > because the whole transition is expected. Within a couple of years > everyone will be saying PPC? What was that? I agree that this will happen although probably closer to four years than two. Chris _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
