Re: It is time for me to take a decision.
Re: It is time for me to take a decision.
- Subject: Re: It is time for me to take a decision.
- From: "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 10:45:17 -0500
I enjoyed your book way back when.
Apple silently removed Objective-C++ support from their version of gcc and
from ProjectBuilder between Rhapsody DR2 and Mac OS X beta 2. Their excuse
at this years WWDC was that they did not think anyone was using it and that
it is hard to maintain with the constant upgrading of C++ support in gcc
versions. They said that developers have been asking for it and it will be
added back in.
I don't know how much you use Cocoa, but it is significantly downgraded from
Openstep 4.2 in many respects. Apple has introduced huge performance
problems (perhaps due CoreFoundation) and lots of new bugs. To be fair,
Apple has added some features, but of course none of the new features are
documented.
One reason that Apple may be reluctant to deliver the promised YellowBox for
NT is that Cocoa has new performance problems. Our high end animation
application runs at twice the frame rate on a 266 MHz Pentium II than on a
450 MHz G4 using substantially the same application code. It would be
embarrassing if applications ran twice as fast on machines that cost 1/4 as
much as Macs.
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