64-bit: Apple does not show the example

With the release of Snow Leopard, Apple encourages developers to rewrite their applications in 64 bits. But the least we can say is that the Cupertino firm really does not show an example. Indeed, none of the software suite Final Cut Studio is 64 bit compatible. According to John Gruber of Daring Fireball, they are all still in Carbon (read about this: no 64 bit Carbon).

Adobe had been much criticism about this just before the release of CS4 which can convert video to Flash. The editor reported that the Windows version of Photoshop is optimized 64-bit unlike the Mac version. For the latter, Adobe had indicated that it would take at least wait until the release of CS5. Photoshop is a large project written in Carbon, Adobe developers needed more time to "dust off" his code. At the time, John Nack had estimated that the change from Carbon to Cocoa could affect up to one million lines of code for a program like Photoshop (read: Cocoa and 64-bit Photoshop CS5 menu).

Apple does not, therefore, better and Adobe has not provided any information on this topic. The Californian company may attend the exit and widespread Snow Leopard to tackle this enormous project and market a version of Final Cut Studio that is both 64-bit and optimized for Snow Leopard. Many of these technologies in the latter (OpenCL, Grand Central ...) it would probably be thrilled.