On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:37:34 -0800 Warren Nagourney <war...@phys.washington.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, Derick. > > Although this is a YDL forum, I am afraid to say that there is no > comparison between any linux on PPC and OS X. The former simply > doesn't have the software base that I need. I used to think that it > would be faster than OS X, but after a few installations of linux on > Apple computers, I discovered that OS X wins hands down in the speed > area as well. I think that linux is optimized for x86 and of course > things like flash are only available on x86 linux (I hate flash, but > it unfortunately has become a standard for internet video). There > are still some PPC optimizations in OS X apps and maybe even some > Altivec usage (which allows Quicktime to smoothly run at 1080p on my > PPC machines). The tasks involved in writing my book would have been > enormously greater if I had used linux instead of OS X. Prior to my relationship with TSS, I tried my hand at being an Apple developer. Every course Apple offered (beyond the one free introduction in programming for the Mac) were expensive. Beyond that you had to complete specialized seminar training at the Apple Campus at Cupertino!! Add to that costs for travel, hotels and accommodations, etc an individual developer like myself could not do that. Corporations and Universities with deep budgets however are another matter. Within YDL however I could write and create things which ran and explore my own technical interests occasionally sharing them as open source projects which may or may not have interested others -- without it costing blood money, mainly mine. There are entertaining applications for OS X, however if you really get into the source of how Apple did things then and does things still, and requires that they be done, nearly any careful programmer would see "spaghetti" code -- meaning inexplicable layers between the executing program within Apple's operating system and how that program must function to implement hooks into established and approved Apple tools. This is really the secret reason why you see no improvement in efficiency between your version of the Mac OS and the current or recent versions of Mac OS. The spaghetti has gotten "longer" and there aren't enough cores or processing speed to "eat" or process it all. The TSS team avoided the spaghetti method of programming implemented by Microsoft and Apple. YDL and other TSS products are faster because all that junk -- that spaghetti -- doesn't exist. Although nearly everyone wants to have the functionality without the spaghetti, it isn't easy to do as Apple and Microsoft have proven by regularly losing their products into baffling code which not only wastes computer cycles, but also costs consumers money by costing time. Straightforward and intentionally well designed programming helps any processor, but with all that junk removed PowerPC systems running YDL have no peer -- period. Consider also that it is rather sad that even all the work Apple has done, in professional settings where operating systems are tested yearly for efficient processing and security -- Linux comes in First, Windows comes second and the Mac sometimes doesn't come in third place because other operating systems are stronger. These tests have been going on for at least 10+ years!! No Apple operating system has ever achieved second place!! Allow me to be clear about this, there is no point on working on any computer whose data can be compromised via theft by breeches in wireless or other network, or system access vulnerabilities. Why would anyone risk it? Yet people do all the time because they are lulled into forgetting how vulnerable their data is as well as intentionally misdirected regarding how strong the operating system they choose to use actually is regarding protecting their personal and business work. You would think that many would understand by this date the threat of theft of their work and their personal and work related identities, but no. That however is a whole different problem. In consideration of the talent which was at Apple or Microsoft, they could and should have done much, much better. Spaghetti is fine for humans to consume as an enjoyable meal together with meat balls, sauces, etc. -- it is not intended for processors which would have to follow Moore's Law advanced infinitely every microsecond to successfully digest all the spaghetti humans can generate just by sheer imagination. ========= Refranes/Popular sayings: The Taino say:No hay mal que por bien no venga. There is no evil out of which good cannot blossom.
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