On Sep 8, 2008, at 10:23 PM, Michael Lewis wrote:
Yes, it runs faster on Tiger. Apple made some of the APIs much slower
in Leopard.
Sorry for drifintg off topic a bit, but this makes me want to ask
something...
I haven't used the newer Leopard yet. This makes me want to ask if the
slowness is noticeable on newer Macs or not? I didn't install it on my
current G4 systems because I suspected it would bog down, but I
figured
that'd be more due to the eye candy than the internal stuff.
The part that's much slower is a very specific area that SpamSieve
happens to stress a lot, but which most applications don't. When
running on Leopard, SpamSieve uses my own code instead, which is much
faster than Leopard's but not as fast as Tiger's. With a normal-sized
SpamSieve corpus, the difference is barely noticeable.
Overall, I'd say that Leopard is only slightly slower than Tiger on a
G4. If you have a GB of RAM, I'd definitely run Leopard.
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Michael Tsai <http://c-command.com>
