May be I over reacted, just a bit
22/06/05 20:43 Filed in: Internet
Perhaps it was shock, but I think I when over the top
a little last time.
Yes, okay I'm prepared to say I may well have been
wrong, with my biggest mistake entry last time.
I've now had time to think about it and I've also watched the whole keynote speech now. Yes Steve Jobs is a great showman and his keynotes are always worth watching, but the one thing that put things in to perspective for me was one of his last lines.
"The soul of the mac is OSX". Very true.
Yes is would be nice to say with the power PC processors, which are still technically much cleaner, neater and more advanced, but beyond scoring a few extra geek brownie points is this worth any thing?
Probably not now days. People don't write code any more, machines do.
To explain, very few people write in machine code. The reason, most of the time, for desk top and server machines there is simply no need to do it. Compilers are good enough now that it's only the most time or space critical operations that need human written machine code.
Also consider that even if you do write machine code, on a modern architecture it will be re-ordered, have it's loops flattened and be translated in a RISC microcode that probably not even the author would recognise!
A complier will be much better at writing code that can be optimised and converted like this efficiently.
So yes I still have reservations about things like power and code efficiency, I just can't see how intel code can be as efficient as power PC, but I'm prepared to say maybe this is the beginning of a new golden age for macs.
I've now had time to think about it and I've also watched the whole keynote speech now. Yes Steve Jobs is a great showman and his keynotes are always worth watching, but the one thing that put things in to perspective for me was one of his last lines.
"The soul of the mac is OSX". Very true.
Yes is would be nice to say with the power PC processors, which are still technically much cleaner, neater and more advanced, but beyond scoring a few extra geek brownie points is this worth any thing?
Probably not now days. People don't write code any more, machines do.
To explain, very few people write in machine code. The reason, most of the time, for desk top and server machines there is simply no need to do it. Compilers are good enough now that it's only the most time or space critical operations that need human written machine code.
Also consider that even if you do write machine code, on a modern architecture it will be re-ordered, have it's loops flattened and be translated in a RISC microcode that probably not even the author would recognise!
A complier will be much better at writing code that can be optimised and converted like this efficiently.
So yes I still have reservations about things like power and code efficiency, I just can't see how intel code can be as efficient as power PC, but I'm prepared to say maybe this is the beginning of a new golden age for macs.
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