Re: mac schmack

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From: Chris Nandor
Subject: Re: mac schmack
Date: 17:31 on 08 Sep 2003
At 11:22 -0500 2003.09.08, Peter da Silva wrote:
>People keep telling me how classic Mac OS didn't suck all that bad. I don't
>understand what they're smoking. Now the fastest thing I've played with OS
>9 on is a G3/700, but after all that's only something like six or eight times
>as fast as my own laptop which has no problems with FreeBSD, Windows 2000,
>and BeOS... so unless there's something in the G4 that magically extracts
>all the suck I have to conclude they're on something pretty heavy.

The UI in Mac OS is significantly faster than Mac OS X.  No, really.  It
is.  And things like compiling software etc. is as fast or faster in Mac OS
(as long as you don't have other things doing things, and not including
"cheats" like predictive compiling in XCode ...).


>[insert flame about Quartz and the effect it has on OS X performance here,
> you've seen it before... OS X is so much faster than OS 9 everywhere
> else

No, it's not.  It is faster in some areas, such as loading apps that can
take advantage of prebinding.  It may be faster at IO, one some machines.
On others, maybe not.  And as noted, Mac OS beats Mac OS X in the UI.  In
most places, they have the same speed.  Often people think Mac OS is slow
because of bad extension crap, or because many apps/extensions are running
simultaneously and competing for processor time, but while that IS a poor
reflection on the OS, certainly, it is not the same thing as saying the OS
is slow.

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