Correction... it was dog-slow on machines of the same-era under GNUstep. it was usable, but much slower than the PPC.
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Gregory Casamento <[email protected] > wrote: > On the subject of Bean... > > One of the things Bean did do was to show us how slow our text handling > is. Bean runs beautifully on machines which came out with 10.4, but was > dog-slow on machines of the same era. Now it doesn't matter since we have > these 8-core 32GB monstrosities (like the machine I currently have) but > there are a lot of things, but it's obvious that there are still things to > be tightened up in that area. > > Greg > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Riccardo Mottola < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> David Chisnall wrote: >> >>> I don't think 100% compatibility with OS X 10.8 is nearly as relevant as >>> 'look, runs this application on *NIX which only runs on OS X >=10.7'. No >>> one cares if we've implemented 100% of all of the 10.8 Cocoa APIs, they >>> care about the particular subset that their application uses. We may not >>> implement that either, but a few case studies are great. >>> >>> A few years ago, Bean was good because it required 10.4 and worked on >>> GNUstep and looked reasonable with the GNOME and Windows themes. Now we >>> need something new. >>> >> And we never got Bean really to work! It was worth a screenshot, but it >> shows bugginess, incompleteness, etc etc. Start that it will not work >> out-of-the box because certain color encoding, fix that and you get to >> whole parts of UI commented out, bugs, small and big problems. So a good >> start... but nothing ever finished, not enough to say "Bean is a full >> gnustep citizen". >> Thus we never got a Bean-GS release, no new screenshot no news, again the >> same vicous cycle. It's there 90% perhaps. >> >> But for sure, such announcements are those that get blogged, get on >> websites, tweets and magazines. Much more than just something static on a >> website. It is the continuous flux of news, but then also substance and the >> delivered product. >> >> Riccardo >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/**listinfo/discuss-gnustep<https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep> >> > > > > -- > Gregory Casamento > Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant > yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa > (240)274-9630 (Cell) > http://www.gnustep.org > http://heronsperch.blogspot.com > -- Gregory Casamento Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) http://www.gnustep.org http://heronsperch.blogspot.com
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