Darwin as primary platform

Eric Christopher echristo@apple.com
Wed Oct 4 23:58:00 GMT 2006


Jack Howarth wrote:
> Eric,
>    I had always thought 90% of the advantage of
> x86_64 was the extra registers in EMT64. Actually
> the only gripe I have with Apple's transient to 
> Intel is that they didn't junk the i386 model and
> only use chips that could do EMT64 so we would always
> have those extra registers.

No disagreement, however, Brad was talking about ppc64.

-eric



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