Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 03:35:31 07/29/04
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On July 29, 2004 at 03:32:36, Dan Andersson wrote: >On July 29, 2004 at 03:20:44, Andreas Guettinger wrote: > >>If you only want to play chess with your new box, I would buy the Dual Opteron. >>For Crafty I remember a single Opteron 2.2Ghz is about 50% faster than a single >>G5 2Ghz for chess. >> >>If you want to do any other things with your new box (i.e. programming), buy the >>G5. >> > Is it the development environment that make you prefer the G5 (IDE, API, >libraries ...)? I wonder mainly because the time to compile benchmarks I have >seen of the Opteron are impressive. > >MvH Dan Andersson > >>regards >>Andy Yes, the IDE in OSX Xcode is far the best Unix IDE I ever used. I even prefer it to ajunta. Xcode uses gcc per default, but I read somewhere it can also be used with the IBM compiler. The text edit features are excellent, source code management is excellent (let's you choose between perforce and CVS) and there are a lot of very good debugging and profiling tools included. One drawback maybe is that you have to spend some time to learn all the features. I have no idea about compile benchmarks. Xcode uses the ZeroLink library, which manages precompiled header files, that makes compiling pretty fast. Also for a server I would use a G5. They are a bit more expensive, but i think you have it up and running in a part of the time than a linux server. And third, I prefer a good GUI, and OS X is really good. And with the Unix (BSD) stuff that comes with the OS (vi, pico, Apache etc) and fink (a sourceforge for unix tools for OS X) it is basically like a Unix with a good GUI. regards Andy
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