Re: 32 or 64 bit front-end on 64-bit Mac
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- Subject: [mg88505] Re: 32 or 64 bit front-end on 64-bit Mac
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 06:46:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Jay Ortiz wrote:
> Just installed Mathematica 6.0.2.1 on a Mac Pro running OS X 10.5.2
> (Leopard). TThe system info (portions included below) reports that the
> Mathematica kernel is 64 bit as expected, it says the front end is 32
> bit. Note that in that section, the processor type is reported as x86
> not x86-64.
>
>
> SystemInformationData[{"Kernel" -> {"Version" ->
> "6.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (March 13, 2008)",
> "ReleaseID" -> "6.0.2 (1009763, 1009696)", ...
> "MachineType" -> "PC",
> "OperatingSystem" -> "MacOSX", "ProcessorType" -> "x86-64",
> .....
> FrontEnd" -> {"Version" ->
> "6.0 for Mac OS X x86 (32-bit) (March 13, 2008)",
> "ReleaseID" -> "6.0.2 (1009763, 1009694)", ...
> "MachineType" -> "PC",
> "OperatingSystem" -> "MacOSX", "ProcessorType" -> "x86",
> .....
>
> Why doesn't the front end report as 64 bit and not 32 bit? Is this
> expected? Thanks for any help.
Jay,
AFAIK, the front-end for Mac OS X is compiled and *shipped* by WRI only
as a 32-bit application. So your installation is fine and what the
command *SystemInformation[]* reports is correct.
Regards,
-- Jean-Marc