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Subject: Re: G4 vs AMD 64 Opteron.

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 03:39:05 07/29/04

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On July 29, 2004 at 03:59:31, Hristo wrote:

>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 ...)?
>
>Sorry to jump into this.
>But the IDE on the OSX (xCode) is not very good. It is cumbersome and heavy and
>ultimately fails in the most frequently used feature; editing text. I swear this
>part is preposterous, at this time. It is so bad that I have abandoned sing
>XCode (IDE) for editing text and instead use jEdit or SubEthaEdit and then edit
>the makefiles by hand. ;-/
>

What do you not like in Xcode text editing. I find it great. At the beginning
when I was just learning about Xcode I used it mainly a s a text editor and
compiled with a makefile in the terminal.
I don't know jedit, but there is nothing in text editing that I would miss in
Xcode.

regards
Andy





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