Author: Hristo
Date: 12:44:40 07/29/04
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On July 29, 2004 at 15:10:43, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >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. :) >Did you try to turn indexing of? Preferences->Navigation -> Enable Indexing Yes I did and also turned off the "Predictive Compilation" ... If it works for, perhaps you shouldn't try other editors, because it might make you feel awkward. :-) I have four Macs (with lots of memory on all of them) at home and XCode exhibits the same behavior on all of them. (The slowest one is 1 GHz AlPB) Regards, Hristo > >regards >Andy
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