On Mar 22, 2011, at 7:42 AM, ah...clem wrote: > there you go AGAIN, confusing software performance with CPU > performance. the apps you refer to were written for the Win/Tel > architecture, and ported to the PPC by lazy and/or incompetent boobs > who wouldn't or couldn't rewrite the program from the ground up in > such a way as to fully exploit the Altivec processor.
Oh puleeeze. You're claiming a dual 1.25 Ghz G4 on a 333 mHz bus can compare to a Mac Pro (which at a MINIMUM has 2 2.66Ghz dual core Xeons with 667 Mhz memory bus) with a few COMPILER TWEAKS??? (which tweaks, BTW, Apple's dev tools pretty much apply automatically when you select PPC as a compile target) Compare the performance of iDVD encoding on the two platforms, unless, of course, you consider Apple's programmers to be "lazy and/or incompetent boobs who wouldn't or couldn't rewrite the program from the ground up in such a way as to fully exploit the Altivec processor." Considering they wrote iDVD for the PPC IN THE FIRST PLACE! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
