On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 3:06 PM -0500 01/10/2006, Brian McEwen wrote:
On Jan 10, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
In Wayne and Garth's immortal words "SCHHHWINGGG!" :-)
If those published stats hold up to real world comparisons,
that's one helluva impressive laptop.
no problem with laggy google Earth on THOSE laptops!
*arg* *choke* *sputter*
yes, cure your badly coded app problems by buying a bigger better
faster computer. God forbid you should make the programmer fix his
code.
I suspect the "laggy" performance is being compared to systems with
better video, or all the OpenGL doodad options being turned on, or
sluggish networks, because GE slurps bandwidth like crazy. (If you're
on an Airport with you, your wife, the kids and three mooching
neighbors, you ain't got much bandwidth left on a typical cable
connection...)
It runs quite nicely on my system, an 800 MHz G4 with an original
radeon card, and a 10 mbit ethernet connection.
Google is rewriting a Windows-Only app to run on multiple architectures.
You can do that by making a separate app for every architecture, or
do it the way they are, use a cross-platform library. (They're using
QT <http://www.trolltech.com>) By their nature, cross-platform
libraries tend to be less efficient.
I suppose you could make GE work on low-end hardware by getting in
there and hand-coding assembler, but, then, if that was the way to
develop we'd never get GE on any platform.
--
Bruce Johnson
This is the sig who says 'Ni!'
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