Coleman opened this issue on Jan 06, 2010 · 79 posts
ssgbryan posted Thu, 07 January 2010 at 6:27 PM
Quote - I need to clarify that the Mac will not get the 64-bit editor, only Windows gets the 64-bit editor. There are insurmountable difficulties with a 64-bit GUI on Mac. That's why Photoshop is still a 32-bit app on Mac.
Both will have a 64-bit renderer.
The reason Photoshop is still 32 bit is because it was written with the Carbon libraries.
Carbon was a temporary fix to bridge from OS9 to OSX. Apple has been telling developers for almost a decade now not to make long-term plans with anything that uses Carbon.
They would have to start using the Cocoa libraries.
If Adobe or anyone else needed any clue it should have been 2 years ago when Apple dropped development of the Carbon 64 libraries.
The "insurmountable" difficulties with a 64-bit GUI are the need to move from the Carbon libraries to the Cocoa libraries.