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Why does it matter? It's not as if there is any real performance penalty of running 32-bit and 64-bit apps concurrently.
by Aloha 9y ago
Why does it matter?
It's not as if there is any real performance penalty of running 32-bit and 64-bit apps concurrently.
- gok 9y agoSure there is. You need an entire second copy of every user space library to be resident in DRAM (and on disk)
- Aloha 9y agoWhy would you need every userspace library in memory? - you'd only have the libraries in use by applications in memory.
- gok 9y agoSure but any Mac app that uses AppKit (that is, ~any GUI app) pulls in about 300 MB of executable dependencies at a minimum. More for apps that uses rarer frameworks.
- Aloha 9y agoI suspect a majority of 32-bit apps are CarbonLib, which has a smaller footprint, how much smaller, I dont know.
- tinus_hn 9y agoThere are real support costs for making it work. I don’t want to pay so you can run apps that belong in a museum.