"We don't have all the results yet but we're giving you what we have so far on the new iMac G5s (2.1GHz and 1.9GHz) compared to the previous model (2.0GHz). I hypothesized that we'd see small gains in CPU intensive tasks and big gains in graphics intensive tasks. I noticed in various discussion groups that many consumers are trying to decide between the high end iMac and low end Power Mac. So I included the results from the Dual-Core G5/2.0GHz Power Mac."
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Member since:2005-06-30
The hot Photoshop filters are already going to be developed in assembly or in terms of SIMD intrinsics. The lowest-level implementation of any of the performance-critical sections of frameworks like math datatype implementations and codecs will be the same. I just recall reading you say that you'd like to see most of Apple's vendors make use of ICC, and that would be rather superfluous. It's good that developers have the option of ICC now, though. I'm sure a few people are going to be fond of the idea of having Intel's Fortran compiler available, too.
Member since:2005-07-06
I don't think there is nearly as much SIMD and assembly out there as you seem to think there is. Most code is just plain C. Breaking out the ASM is something most developers are hesitent to do.
And on a unrelated note. Who the hell modded down Japail's last comment? Please, explain yourself.
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2005-07-06
I'm more interested in Apple using it for compiling their own OS X frameworks, and third-parties using it for performance-critical apps like Photoshop etc.