Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Jun 2008 21:52 UTC, submitted by Taylor
TestMac.net has published a quick look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard. "The biggest changes are under the hood. Snow Leopard is fast. Very fast. Like, surprisingly fast. From boot times to general application usage, Snow Leopard was noticeably quicker then Leopard when using the same system. Apple and 3rd party applications alike, they all launched faster and performed smoother. I'm sure this can be attributed to the new 64-bit architecture, but its amazing how much of a difference it really is." Screenshots included.
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So as OSX makes the transition and speeds up; it leaves the question - does OSX speed up by a greater or lesser factor compared to other operating systems doing the same transition?
There is room for a good article on this: pinning down the practical performance enhancement of moving from 32bit to 64bit operating systems; and suggesting which O/S are on the curve and which are behind it.
Leopard (10.5) already supports 64 bit programs. I suspect the article is confused, perhaps by rumors that Snow Leopard was only to run on 64 bit processors. The main processing advances in Snow Leopard are for additional multiple core performance for applications (Grand Central), and offloading some mathematical operations onto GPUs (OpenCL).