/ Will my AMD64 laptop run PD and other sound apps (using mingo's RT
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amd64 has a number of general-purpose registers that are not available in 32-bit mode, which means code compiled for 64bit will be faster regardless of whether it was specially optimized for 64bit, or uses >4gb of ram..the charts i saw at anandtech put it at around 10-25%..
If that is the case (and I believe it is) will some PD code guru PLEASE get arrays to behave correctly in 64-bit PD? I don't see this problem ever going away, will it? At least without a code fix?
I dont know enough about code to find out myself, but dont arrays have callbacks? Wouldnt it be a simple as changing the typedef for the elements of an array, and any programm accessing $0-array would use this callback? When externals are compiled they could look at pd.h to see the size of data arrays return, and deal with them appropriately... I know the worst ammount - a little bit. Sorry...
Its just sad that I cant use my 64-bit machine in 64-bit mode.
Thanks! -thewade