Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

--- Nick Batzdorf <recording@...> wrote:

> I should rephrase my important question: Will our
software be adapted 
> to take advantage of 64-bit memory addressing?

> The bells and whistles - and the fact that I don't
remember any of 
> the upcoming features means that they must be bells
and whistles 
> rather than must-haves - don't have me waiting with
bated breath. 
> Being able to load an entire orchestral template on
one machine does.

Looking at the developer docs, I'd say no, at least
not initially.  While the Tiger core is 64 bit aware,
many of the apple-provided libraries intended for use
by developers are not yet 64 bit, meaning that any app
which uses them also must remain 32 bit.  Most notable
are the interface libraries.  Basically, any 64 bit
application with a gui must either include a
completely custom gui with no quartz or cocoa
components, or else they must break their gui into a
separate application and then communicate gui inputs
to another, headless, 64-bit application via some form
of interprocess communication.  Much of the logic gui
does appear to be totally custom, but dialogs and
preference panes and such look to be cocoa.  Short of
rebuilding all of those components, or breaking them
out into separate apps, logic is going to stay 32 bit
until apple gets their act together and rebuilds all
their libraries for Tiger.  

The only apps that will take adavantage of 64 bit
addressing initially will be 'server' apps which run
entirely in the background and communicate with a user
via config files and such.  It will be useful for 3d
renderers, data visualization, databases, things of
that nature.  Once apple finishes the 64 bit
transition (hopefully in a tiger point release, not OS
XI), everything else will be able to take advantage.

--sam




		
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