Thank you for the clarification. That was helpful!
Cheers,
-Dave
Chinh Nguyen replied:
David Airey <[email protected]> wrote:
> If there is no drastic _loss_ in optimization, the gain in use of
more
> RAM would seem worth using Apple's developer tools. If you use a set
of
> developer tools whose business interests are not primarily Apple's,
> what timetable are we talking here? Wasn't this the point of Apple
> providing these tools at no cost? I must be missing something here.
It's quite a lot of work switching from our current developer tools to
Apple's. First of all, converting our project over is no simple task
and we
do not like switching developer tools during a release cycle. But one
big
reason, to be quite blunt, is that Apple's Project Builder is _not
very good_
(I've actually got stronger words but I'll keep them to myself).
Absolutely
horrendous to work in. X-Code is slightly better but built on the same
foundation so it's painful to work in too.
This would all be worth it if it Apple's tools produced better code
but it
doesn't. In the old days, Apple's gcc produced code was significantly
slower
than the CodeWarrior produced code. They've narrowed the gap a bit
with gcc
3.3 but CodeWarrior produced code is still 10-20% faster than gcc 3.3
produced
code.
Even an Apple engineer admitted to me that CodeWarrior produces faster
code in
most cases. That's why we haven't made the switch. CodeWarrior
produces
better code and has the best development environment on any platform
so it's
an easy choice. And I can't fault CodeWarrior for not having G5
support yet.
Apple left a lot of people in the dark about the G5 and it's not
something a
developer can support overnight. I suspect G5 support is forthcoming
from
them and will be from us soon afterwards.
Anyway, Apple has not been very helpful in terms of 64-bit support. I
can't
find one shred of documentation on how to produce 64-bit code with
their gcc.
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