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As long as we're at it, let's clear up any potential confusion (which I haven't been seeing here, but HAVE seen in other places) about "64 is better than 32 because it's more, and more is better."TIP:
There seems to be some confusion about 32 vs. 64 and which macs can or can't...
Here's what Apple says on this topic:
This quote came from a blog post by Adobe's John Nack, titled "A 64-Bit Reality Check" (you have to scroll down a bit to read it.) It also includes a link to the original Apple document that includes a "common misconceptions" section.For many developers, however, compiling their code into 64-bit programs may not offer any inherent advantages. Unless your program needs more than 4 GB of addressable memory, supporting 64-bit pointers may only reduce the performance of your application.
Reading these may help with any impatience people may be feeling for "Why hasn't my developer issued a 64-bit version of _______ yet?"
Eventually, 64-bit will be a good thing because it will enable developers to release applications that can address huge amounts of memory, which is generally a handy thing for image-processing applications.
Until then, it's likely that most of the speed benefit many of us are seeing from Snow Leopard is because of the cleaned-up, more-tightly-optimized code... which will benefit 32-bit as well as 64-bit apps.