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Subject: Re: G4 vs AMD 64 Opteron.

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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