On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.atwrote:
64-bit Gem on Mac OS X could drop Quicktime/Carbon in favor of gstreamer and/or gmerlin which I believe is already implemented on GNU/Linux.
That would throw away the advantages of QT on OSX, and I would probably no longer use GEM if that happened.
Then its just window management, which doesn't seem so huge, but I haven't done it before.
It would require interfacing the C++ code with Objective-C. It is possible, but fairly masochistic.
Am I right in assuming that Gem could really benefit by 64-bit because it would allow it to use more than 4 gigs of RAM?
I cannot recall anyone ever saying they hit this limit. Even the massive projects I did using many HD clips and capture never got close to this.