on 2/11/01 9:07 PM, David Leitch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The discussion is useful but I'd still appreciate some informed comment as
> to whether there is much of a performance benefit from a Cocoa source rather
> than a Carbonised source and if so why?
It is unclear at this point what speed benefit you might derive. Any speed
benefit would likely be as a result of Cocoa being close to the metal than
Carbon.
> Is it because of the greater speed of Objective C or the ability to take
> advantage of some of OS X technologies over Carbonised applications.
I don't think it is either. Objective C isn't some holy grail of
programming. Carbon will be as rich as Apple makes it. I would think that
over time, once it becomes apparent that the apps that make a Mac a Mac
aren't going to be using Cocoa very extensively, that Apple will make sure
that Carbon is a first class citizen.
> What would these choices mean in the real world to Entourage and Office
> users and will be ever see a Cocoa version of Entourage?
In the real world, we will do what we have to, to make sure that our Apps
run with sufficient performance on X. If this means writing some stuff in
more X specific ways we will. I have learned to never say never but I would
think it very, very unlikely that we throw away what we have done to date
and basically start from scratch on Cocoa. Even more unlikely that Word or
Excel would.
jud
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