Re: Xcode - AN APPLE OPPORTUNITY!
Re: Xcode - AN APPLE OPPORTUNITY!
- Subject: Re: Xcode - AN APPLE OPPORTUNITY!
- From: Brad Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:14:23 -0700
I'm not the original poster, but I figure I'll throw my $0.02 in, especially since "fresh meat" in the form of a new Apple engineer has stepped up. ;-)
On Mar 2, 2012, at 2:42 PM, email@hidden wrote:
>> Bring back Distributed Builds, which disappeared in 4.3 without so much as a word in the "What's New". I want to be able to work on my Air and use the full power of the 27" iMac 3.4 GHz 16 GB RAM 240GB LaCie Little Big Disk SSD Death Star Mac in my office.
> Were you able to effectively use this feature before? Could you see a measurable improvement? Was the difference only perceptible when doing a clean build, or where things actually zippier while working incrementally?
For my own needs, yes. I could spread the build out amongst 2 Macs, both with 8 cores and 16 GB and see an improvement. The projects I work on typically have several hundred to well over a thousand files. It wasn't so huge a win for incremental compiles, but for full builds - yes, big difference. Granted Clang is faster by a fair amount all by itself, but I can never get builds that are "too quick". ;-)
>> Display the current line number somewhere like most programmer's editors do. Sometimes I like to turn line numbers off.
> Where? :-)
How about in the iTunes status of that big frickin' un-customizable toolbar? ;-) It doesn't really give me much useful data now, and yet I can't help but stare directly at it.
More seriously, other editors typically display the row/column at the bottom (borrowing from the horizontal scroll bar space) or (like BBedit) in a tiny status bar above or below the editing area. While you're there, you could re-add the one-button "switch to counterpart" back from Xcode 3 and keep me from going crazy with the "Assistant".
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Brad Oliver
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