Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 03:32:26 06/18/04
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On June 17, 2004 at 23:48:43, Joshua Shriver wrote: >Are there any engines written specifically for the PPC arch, and run under >OS X? > >While I know many engines are portable to OS X via gcc, I haven't come across >any that really use the PPC specific platform. > >Would be interesting to see, especially since the G5 came out. >The G5 might not be an opteron, but I would place a G5 over a Pentium or >non-Opteron anyday. > >Just curious, comments and flames are welcome. >Have a nice day. To most of us, the question is: Is there really any point? For the top commercial authors, OS X and the G5 are (unfortunately) not very interesting targets, because of Apple's small market share. For amateurs like myself, doing low-level optimizations for the G5 (or any other processor) would be a waste of time, because there are so many easier and more fun roads to improvement. I use OS X as my main development platform myself, but it is very unlikely that my engine will ever be strong enough that G5-specific optimizations will be worth doing. It is better to concentrate on writing clean, simple and easily portable code. Tord
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