Posted by Jim on 04/14/07 20:36

"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?

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Edo ergo sum

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