Article:		Developer Notes from WWDC 2003
Subject:		Performance?
Date:		2003-06-25 07:02:54
From:		anonymous2
Response to: Performance?
The guy has an axe to grind. He's ported his apps to OSX but got irritated by "unkind" reviews of his apps by "Mac zealots". Not liking zealotry of any kind I felt some sympathy for him. That is until I tried to use Haxial Text Edit. Now I understand the complaints. An App ported to the platform with the minimum of effort, buggy and no attempt at modification to make it behave like other OSX applications. His attempt to portray himself as a "Mac User" is disingenuous. I've no doubt he does test his apps on OSX, but my impression is of someone who thought they could make a quick buck from Mac users rather than somone who is enthusiastic about or committed to the platform. He makes some valid criticisms of the way Apple has used SPEC, but is extremely one sided. For example, if SPEC gave any advantage to AltiVec performance I could understand his points on SSE2. It doesn't, and he has since admitted he was wrong on Apple disabling SSE2 anyway. Don't take this seriously. Wait until the G5 comes out and look for serious less partisan reviews of performance on applications that you want to use.

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• Performance?
  2003-06-25 10:24:59  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  I totally agree. While I think the benchmarking was a marketing fiasco on Apple's part. Jobs skewing the numbers again. (when will he realize people will ALWAYS find the truth faster than he can cover up his tricks?)
  
  I ALSO think that those benchmarks, regardless of how skewed they are, are pretty close to useless. The real test is "how fast can you perform the necessary tasks to get your work done".
  
  Wait for some 3rd party benchmarks on specific applications or... just go with what you know. :x
  
  I, for one, think it's funny that anybody would care about the difference, like they were going to switch platforms to get their work done. Heh. If you're experienced with OS9/X or Windows, what are the chances you're gonna switch platforms for a little more speed? Your job will inevitably take longer til you become as comfortable with the new platform as you were with the old.
  
  The only way that's gonna happen is with a personal preference change really. Where you just give up one OS for the other.
  
  Neura