On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:48 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > Well for one thing, everything Apple in Lion is 64 bit and is DAMN FAST on
my 12-core. Quite a jump from the old G5 of the same speed. Granted, > there was not the extra load of all the startup stuff I usually have because I > was running Lion in a dedicated volume, as I was warned by the Dev group, but > it seemed extra stable. > What system wouldn't 'seem' fast with 12 cores and no load? I am not one who believes it is good just because Apple says. > > I didn't get a chance to do much with Revolution, but it seemed to be fine > in LIon. Did not try Remo yet. > If LiveCode can run stable in Lie'n, why can't RunRev make it do so in 64-bit Linux? > > Multiple instances of Quicktime, crunching DV down to 3 formats in 'Save > for > Web", got done before I returned with my coffee. > > I also didn't see the dreaded 'spinning pizza' cursor as much or at all using Lion. It seems like Leopard is doing far more memory swapping ( or whatever it's doing ) - and I've been seeing that dammed cursor more and > also odd blocking 'breaks' with Leopard. > > "Launchpad" is a pretty obvious name. It's possible that it hadn't been > registered before, or Apple registered it in 2002 or something. Apple > probably has a busy department that does nothing but buy domain names and > register trademarks. > > On 12 June 2011 05:42, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > > > The thing that makes me wonder is Apple's appropriation of the term > > "launchpad" > > from somewhere else: > > > > https://launchpad.net/ > > > > they may have even nicked the logo: > > http://www.volaciousmedia.com/portfolio/launchpad > > > > apart from the fact that Lion looks like a load of eye-candy . . . > > > > I'd like to know to. > -- > Stephen Barncard > San Francisco Ca. USA > ˜Roger _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
