Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Jun 2003 15:32 UTC
I was present at Apple's WWDC yesterday and witnessed one of the historical moments in Apple's history, the introduction of their 64-bit platform. Am I impressed? The answer is complicated. I was happy to see Apple moving on and deliver. But I would have expected nothing less from a 4 billion tech company who had the need to catch up with the "other" platform, the 32-bit PC. You all heard by now what's new in yesterday's press releases and news coverings. But here is a wrap up of the first day of the conference and a commentary on what Apple really announced yesterday, underneath its surrounding distortion field.
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Apple might have used benchmarks in a misleading way to make their products look better/faster than they actually are?
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GCC is the WORST compiler available for Windows at this time, performance-wise that is. Also, which version of GCC did they use under Windows? MinGW, CygWin, or DJGPP? CygWin's compatibility layer introduces significant overhead, compared to MinGW
It lacks many of the optimizations that MSVC and ICC have, whereas Apple has been optimizing the hell out of the Mac version of GCC
Run your benchmarks against a compiler that commercial developers actually use and maybe I'll be more inclined to buy your benchmarks. I can't wait for objective benchmarks from an independent source.