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March 27th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Victor your comment about 3D rendering apps and the Final Cut Sudio saying that they render efficently is a little of the mark. For example Cinema 4D renders out well but it doesn’t render that much faster on a Quad G5 compared to a Macbook Pro. It is the same with Apple’s compressor application, once you hit the 4 processor barrier everything starts to see slow downs in rendering ability. There are a couple reasons for this but the main reason is the lack of 64-bit support in OS X. Cinema 4D on the windows side is completely 64-bit so it can shove a bigger file through the processors without having to break it up so it will fit into the address space. Another reason for this slow down when you hit the 4 processor barrier is that Xcode has difficulty building apps for such machines. That kind of multi-threading has to be written and complied within the terminal with eliminates the possiblility of a universal binary. The final reason I will mention is that many developers didn’t update any code when they released universal binaries. They took one of the options that apple mentioned at WWDC last year and let OS X thread their app. And while there is a speed boost it is held down by the limitations of OS X itself.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Blake good comments. I appriciate the input. My guess is that Leopard will use multi-core processors more efficiently than Tiger does. My point is exactly what you are saying. Having multiple cores without developers, making the core use them is not a very good thing. It will get better and in some applications (like CS3) they are using this and the improvement is marked. Again it’s great to see the community of listeners get involved and keep me honest too. Thanks
March 28th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Victor,
This isn’t specific to this topic but I thought you would enjoy this YouTube video of Gates vs Jobs. Not sure if you have seen it. Very funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHO8l-Bd1O4
March 28th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Where can I find the first “maintenance for the mac” podcast? I want to listen to that before the April 1st broadcast Victor described.
Thanks a million.
p.s. I am a newbie to the Mac and need all the help I can get! No clue on maintenance!
March 28th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Found it!!! Thanks anyway!
March 28th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
This is my third post tonight! I am sorry.
My question is a “how to.” I am in the archives loking to download old podcasts from this site. I only know how to get them to my Ipod through downloading at iTunes. but iTunes does not have the entire archive.
How do I get an archived podcast onto my Ipod without iTunes?
Thanks for your help. Sorry for being a pest here tonight.
p.s. Is there another place here to post questions like these? Or is this okay?
March 28th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
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