> 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?
The alleged primary benefit of Cocoa is speed of development, not speed of
execution.
Although this could, of course, change.
> 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'm not aware of any "greater speed of Objective C".
Nor is Cocoa a necessity to take advantage of most MacOS X technologies.
Although it's certainly a convenience.
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Cocoa is (among other things) an API, an environment, a collection of
frameworks, and a collection of libraries. It's an overarching term used to
embody a collection of technologies. Think of it as a marketing term.
There is no universal answer to "Will my application perform
better/faster/at all under Carbon or under Cocoa?"
> What would these choices mean in the real world to Entourage and Office
> users and will be ever see a Cocoa version of Entourage?
On that, I'll defer to Microsoft.
mikel
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