Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 00:42:14 02/24/06
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On February 24, 2006 at 00:21:25, enrico carrisco wrote: >On February 23, 2006 at 20:24:13, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>I have been studying the CCT rules, but cannot find the >>answer to the following question: Is it allowed to change >>operators and hardware during the tournament? >> >>I won't be able to be there all the time, but I will almost >>certainly be watching during the first three or four rounds >>of Saturday. Because my Intel Core Duo 2 GHz is apparently >>slightly faster than Ryan's Athlon X2 3800+, I would prefer to >>operate myself when I can. Do the rules allow this? >> >>Tord > > >Hello Tord. > >It's good to see you will be at the event! > >I take it from the above that Glaurung doesn't take advantage of 64-bit or the >above wouldn't be true. > >Speaking of which -- what's your take on Apple's latest move? G5 is a nice >workhorse and it had even MORE potential that was unused with its 64-bit. Now >that Apple has made a deal with Intel for these Pentium-M dual-cores, where does >that leave any hopes for 64-bit applications? Unless they want to produce two >sets, I don't see any easy solution. Apple is always big on "standardization" >so I don't imagine "special G5 versions" of software is an option. > >But who wants to buy a Porsche and fill it with crappy gas? > >See you Saturday, > >-elc. Apple transfered only the applications and components of the OS that profit from 64bit to 64bit, and this was done over a year ago. This and Altivec is the reason the GUI of the Mac OS currently is about 10 times faster on a G5 than on a Intel Dual Core. Of course this will change when parts get optimized for the new Intel processors. Every company can provide special versions and libraries for G4, G5 or Intel Dual Core with their applications. You can choose the platforms that you want to optimize for in the compiler. There's is no need to rewrite every crap to 64bit, because sometimes that can even lead to performance loss. Please also read: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/64bitPorting/intro/chapter_1_section_1.html regards Andy
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