On Jul 18, 2012, at 12:45 AM, Martin Hewitson wrote: > On 18, Jul, 2012, at 03:07 AM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> > wrote: > >> On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Martin Hewitson wrote: >> >>> On 17, Jul, 2012, at 05:42 PM, Sean McBride <s...@rogue-research.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:30:39 +0200, Martin Hewitson said: >>>> >>>>> This started to appear during the process of going from GC to non-GC. >>>> >>>> What do you mean "non-GC"? I strongly suggest going from GC to ARC, not >>>> from GC back to the stone-age retain-release. Although quite different >>>> 'under the hood', writing for GC and ARC is not so different, and you can >>>> even switch over slowly. >>> >>> That was my original plan, but ARC is 64-bit only, right? I'm not sure I'm >>> ready to drop 32-bit support yet, at least not without canvasing opinion >>> from the users. >>> >>> Martin >> >> I’ve got an app that’s backward-compatible all the way to 10.4/PPC, to which >> I added Sparkle support about half a year ago. In that half year, according >> to the Sparkle stats, 93.99% of my users have been on 64-bit Intel CPUs. Of >> the 6% who are not on 64-bit Intel, only 2.72% are using 32-bit Intel, >> followed by 1.91% on 32-bit PPC and 1.38% on 64-bit PPC (i.e. the G5). > > > That's very interesting. Not least of all that Sparkle can provide these > stats. I didn't know that. I guess today I'm integrating Sparkle and > preparing to gather some statistics. I'd very much like to drop 32-bit > support in favour of ARC!
The thing about it is that you appear to be using block-based APIs already, which means you already require at least 10.6, which means that you’re already Intel-only and have no PPC users, so if your user base is like mine, you’ll lose only 2.72% of your userbase by dropping 32-bit. And honestly, your numbers probably *are* pretty close to mine. 32-bit Intel Macs are pretty rare. The most common are the original white/black MacBooks, which were only in production for about six months in 2006, since Apple switched to 64-bit processors almost immediately after they switched to Intel. Charles _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
