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A question on Archicad 64-bit on Mac...

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:29:57 GMT

64-bit is initially available on Windows only, but will also be available on Mac in a later version of ArchiCAD

Wath are you meaning with "later versione"?
Archicad 13 build xxxx or Archicad 14, 15, 16...?!

Re: A question on Archicad 64-bit on Mac...

Thomas Holm — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:06:55 GMT

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=152623#152623

Re: A question on Archicad 64-bit on Mac...

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:47:26 GMT

borgo1971 wrote:
Wath are you meaning with "later versione"?
Archicad 13 build xxxx or Archicad 14, 15, 16...?!

Here is the exact answer from GS Vice President of Product Development:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=152757&highlight=#152757

Re: A question on Archicad 64-bit on Mac...

Thomas Holm — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:23:22 GMT

Just thought I'd continue the Archicad 64-bit on Mac discussion in the right thread, and direct your attention to a couple of interesting pieces by John Gruber. They put things in perspective, and perhaps let you understand better the hurdles involved and the time needed to make this transition for a big program like Archicad.

This one from 2008, about Adobe's switch to Cocoa and 64bits on the Mac.

This one about iTunes (which is still Carbon).

Also, I find this piece by Drew McCormack about Apple's open-sourcing of the Grand Central Dispatch thread-management technology interesting.

It seems that Apple wants to leverage their 'blocks' extension to the C language (that was also discussed in John Siracusa's Snow Leopard review).

This move by Apple is especially interesting for a cross-platform developer like Graphisoft, because if more globally accepted, it would make life easier. It is clear that Archicad gains very much when you multi-thread the program, and this technique is aimed at making this easier. At least, Apple's move will force other players (read Microsoft) to do something!

I doubt that we'll see any benefits from this in the near future, though. Perhaps within five years or so?