Re: NYT confirms rumor of Apple switch to Intel
Re: NYT confirms rumor of Apple switch to Intel
- Subject: Re: NYT confirms rumor of Apple switch to Intel
- From: Nicko van Someren <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:44:55 +0100
On 6 Jun 2005, at 20:09, Jan Neumüller wrote:
Nothing - I'm just very angry that I have to throw months of
developing into trash thanks to this decision of Apple...
What exactly do you think you are going to need to discard? Were you
actually writing a compiler of your own? Unless you've been doing
that or hand-crafting assembly language, or have been making
assumptions about the byte packing order in your data, it's unlikely
you'll notice the difference. The keynote said Xcode 2.1 is going to
cross-build, so you don't even need to switch development machine.
Since Xcode 2.0 we have had gcc4, which does auto-vectorisation for
you, so you don't have to write assembly language to make use of the
AltiVec and the same support is there for MMX/SSE, though of course
if you are linking against the acceleration framework you instead
then you don't even need to worry about compiler SIMD support.
Nicko
On 06.06.2005, at 21:02, William Turner wrote:
What does a compiler have to do with Cocoa dev?
On Jun 6, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Jan Neumüller wrote:
Well as its now official: WHY GODDAMN THIS CRAZY DECISION?
I was nearly finished with my compiler and now back to x86? And
whats with all the old software? I'm not perfectly sure but
currently I think Apple lost a developer...
Anyone an idea where to get cheap Sparc-Stations?
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