> On 23 Oct 2014, at 14:45, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > > You may just be ahead of your time. > > After all, it seem unlikely Apple will be shipping an iOS device that has > more than 4 GB RAM, and even if they did, with PAE it would only be logically > "necessary" if they expected individual apps to need more than 4 GB. > > True, it's more efficient to use native addressing, and having committed to > 64-bit gates it'll certainly help - but only very modestly, unlikely > significant enough to end-users to make it a requirement. > > So what could be driving this?
I believe this is primarily driven by the desire not to need more RAM in iOS devices. Supporting both 32 & 64-bit apps on the same device means having the system frameworks for both in memory at the same time. When they can drop 32-bit app support in new devices it'll save on firmware update size and build, release and test work at Apple. Mark _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
