Having actually done a port in my day job, porting a large and
complex body of software, if properly engineered, to a different
architecture is not difficult at all.
The slow launch time of Photoshop is attributable to invoking the
Rosetta translation overhead.
Given that Adobe offers Photoshop on Intel already, the difficult
part of porting over filters to take advantage of vectorization
opportunities on Intel has already been done.
Everyone is vastly overstating the difficulty of porting applications
to a different architecture.
On Jun 8, 2005, at 7:56 AM, Roger Harris wrote:
FAT or Universal binaries must be made for all apps and only simple
Coca apps will be a "simple Tweak". The large and complex apps like
Adobe's will be fairly hard and take some time. I would bet that
even Apples apps are in need of some speed work on Intel.
In the Job's demo Photoshop took twice as long to boot as it does
on my MDD 867. He only ran one filter; And I would bet there is a
reason for that. Jobs usually will run the crap out of PS filters
in a demo.
Im guessing they will be running their asses in the ground to get
this ready in a year.
roger
On Jun 7, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Nils Mueller-Scheessel wrote:
I agree to Bruce that Apple will probably loose much of its momentum.
I can see the point why developers should get lots of time to
adapt their software, but why is this necessary when standard mac
software is supposed to run on Intel-Macs seemlessly?
Nils
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