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Subject: Re: G4 vs AMD 64 Opteron.

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 12:10:43 07/29/04

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On July 29, 2004 at 13:24:48, Hristo wrote:

>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.
>

Hm, never experienced something like that. And I have a 400Mhz machine. :)
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regards
Andy



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