Ouch.  I am already running into situations where the 2GB memory addressing 
limit is hampering my designs.  In fact, I ran into it quite some time ago. 
Then again, where are the 64-bit floating-point compilers to take advantage of 
this possibility?

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Francois LE COAT wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>>
>>>> A Mac version is going to be made available within the next few weeks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> To be more precise, the current goal is the first half of May.  
>>> However, please note that this is just a goal and not a promise yet.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tiger (10.4 OS) will be out, and POV 3.7 will take benefit from it :)
> 
> 
> Well, but please don't hold your breath about 64-bit addressing ;-)  
> That is only available to non-GUI programs (that is, i.e. database 
> servers and soon who really benefit from 64-bit addressing and don't 
> need a GUI), so for POV-Ray to use it, the GUI frontend and backend will 
> need to be split apart completely and run as two independent programs 
> that communicate with each other.  As few users have systems with that 
> much RAM (less than 2% according to the collected stats), I cannot 
> possibly justify holding back a beta release to develop the means to do 
> this.  On the other hand, there are more than ten times as many users 
> with dual-processor Macs, who will benefit from the multithreading.  It 
> is more realistic in about a year from now to see something like 64-bit 
> support.  Sorry!
> 
>     Thorsten


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