Is anybody else reminded of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/ Abyss? In the movie they added more oxygen to a water supply inside the helmet and you had to actaully breath the water inside your suit!
I've heard some people refer to Darwin as a pseudo 64bit system, in reference to the fact that it uses a 32bit kernel. Both YDL and Darwin support 64bit memory addressing. Are there any other aspects of an os that need to be addressed in order to fully utilize the architecture? Also what benefit does the 64bit kernel actually provide over 32bits? Apple seems to have covered its bases with respect to HPC functionality like the math libraries and the memory addressing.
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Is anybody else reminded of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/ Abyss? In the movie they added more oxygen to a water supply inside the helmet and you had to actaully breath the water inside your suit!
I've heard some people refer to Darwin as a pseudo 64bit system, in reference to the fact that it uses a 32bit kernel. Both YDL and Darwin support 64bit memory addressing. Are there any other aspects of an os that need to be addressed in order to fully utilize the architecture? Also what benefit does the 64bit kernel actually provide over 32bits? Apple seems to have covered its bases with respect to HPC functionality like the math libraries and the memory addressing.