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Posted by Smarty on 04/14/07 22:50
I don't think I am missing the point. Your point just doesn't make sense.
Why would Apple pay them for the ***past 11 years*** to optimize code on
Intel processors???
Smarty
"Jim" <no@spam.plz> wrote in message
news:no-6BD56B.13365114042007@west.100proofnews.com...
> "Smarty" wrote:
>
>> Jim,
>>
>> At risk of seeming a bit disagreeable, I would think that porting an OS
>> in
>> 1994/5 to Intel chips of that vintage has little or no relevance to
>> optimizing X86 code 12 years hence. What I am saying is that the numerous
>> profound changes to hyperthreading, multicore platforms, and the
>> instruction
>> sets of SSE, SSE2, MMX, and all the other changes to the Intel family in
>> the
>> ensuing 10 years time has rendered their optimizing skills as being of
>> little or no modern value.
>
> You've missed the point. The engineers at Apple now were the engineers
> at NeXTSTEP then. They've been optimizing code on the Intel line since
> the 90's when they released 3.1.
>
> The test will be in releases, no?
>
> --
> Edo ergo sum
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