Spark universal binary?

consumr · October 4, 2006, 8:00pm

Hi,

just a short question. when can we download spark as universal binary for our intelmacs ?

it should not be a big problem ''cause its java, right ?

thanks and have a nice evening,

bye.

LG1 · October 4, 2006, 8:12pm

Hi,

it’'s indeed java but it uses some native code to be displayed in the TNA, get idle time, etc.

So there is no yet a 100% pure java version available.

LG

Andreas_Monitzer · October 4, 2006, 8:54pm

Mixing PowerPC code and Java doesn’‘t work on Intel Macs (since the Java stuff is Intel-only, and you can’‘t mix emulated and non-emulated code in the same process), so I guess Spark doesn’'t work at all there?

Aznidin · October 4, 2006, 9:37pm

And Spark definitely won’'t get installed in J2ME clients.

consumr · October 4, 2006, 10:44pm

ummm, ok,

but where is the problem with universal binary?

i cant just get the source and compile it mself in xcode, can i?

thanks for your answers.

good night.

consumr · October 5, 2006, 10:18am

oh, i just saw i posted my question under the wrong category.

sorry.

and thanks for the answers

Ryan_Graham · October 5, 2006, 1:57pm

Hi All,

Running Spark on the MacBook Pro hasn’'t been an issue (see attached screen shot). Are people seeing something different?

Thanks,

Ryan

consumr · October 7, 2006, 3:01pm

No problems running spark on an intelmac (beside the spark folder and files which are created in a wrong directory - in /User/name/* instead of /User/name/Library/Applicatio/on Support/ - but thats nothing new )

But as a PowerPC Binary the start of spark takes a long time, and the memory consumption is quite suboptimal (even for java i think )