Author: Hristo
Date: 10:24:48 07/29/04
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On July 29, 2004 at 06:39:05, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >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. It is slow and sluggish. The longer you use XCode, without restarting it, the worse it gets. If you have more files open and some of them are large it gets slower yet. > I find it great. If it works for you then that is great. For someone who is use to the responsiveness of other editors XCode might not look very appealing. > 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. :-) Then you have found a full, end to end, solution. (Editor-project management-compiler-etc.) Cheers, Hristo > >regards >Andy
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