{"id":11322,"date":"2006-12-20T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/12\/is-photoshop-cs3-a-64-bit-app.html"},"modified":"2006-12-20T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T17:01:09","slug":"is_photoshop_cs3_a_64_bit_app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/20\/is_photoshop_cs3_a_64_bit_app\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Photoshop CS3 a 64-bit app?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, ask yourself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is a &quot;64-bit application&quot;?<\/li>\n<li>What  advantages does such an application offer?<\/li>\n<li>What are the disadvantages?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In talking to lots of customers, I find that most are unable to answer these questions.&#160; (There&#8217;s nothing inherently wrong with that.&#160; As I&#8217;ve said, I myself am just a simple unfrozen caveman Web designer, and like most non-engineers I don&#8217;t presume to grok the intricacies of complex software design.)&#160; Yet despite the lack of widespread understanding, &quot;64 bit&quot; is one of those buzzwords (a la &quot;Cocoa&quot; and many others) that sounds cool, eliciting a lot of <em>&quot;arewethereyet, arewethereyet??&quot; <\/em>that may or may not be warranted.<\/p>\n<p>Photoshop co-architect Scott Byer has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/scottbyer\/2006\/12\/64_bitswhen.html\">lucid, readable overview<\/a> of 64-bit computing &amp; where Photoshop stands relative to this transition.&#160; Given a great number of factors, we elected not to make the change in this cycle.&#160; That said, Photoshop does take advantage of some aspects of 64-bit chips, and as Scott notes, &quot;It&#8217;s a <em>when<\/em>, not an <em>if<\/em>&quot; we&#8217;ll make the move.&#160; His info should help cut through some of the hype &amp; set  reasonable expectations about the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, ask yourself: What is a &quot;64-bit application&quot;? What advantages does such an application offer? What are the disadvantages? In talking to lots of customers, I find that most are unable to answer these questions.&#160; (There&#8217;s nothing inherently wrong with that.&#160; As I&#8217;ve said, I myself am just a simple unfrozen caveman Web designer, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}