hi
Thomas Kronlachner wrote:
Hi All,
This is my first post here on this list. So I've been working with pd/gem for half a year now. I am very focused on gem in combination with video/audio. I always had the restriction of my hardware, my computer was not powerful enough. so I tend to get a new one. My intention is to by one new IntelMacs. since I really want to get hold of an computer that can handle this I intened to go for this plattform. So I do have a couple of questions:
you have probably noticed that just recently (yesterday!) a similar question popped up....people seem to be very excited about this
- do you think that there is a future for pd/gem on this plattform?
generally i don't think there is such a thing like future, but of course MacIntel will be supported by both pd/Gem hey both pd and Gem where among the first applications that have been known to run on MacIntel (at least that is how i interprete the fact, that both pd and Gem have been successfully tested on last year's apple developer conference, when the MacIntel was first published)
- How was the overall performance of PD/GEM on a mac in general.
on current macs, Gem outperforms other platforms in 2 aspects:
- a lot of pix_sh!t has been optimized for AltiVec (some pix-objects are
MMX optimized (but fewer than for AltiVec), and none has yet been optimized for SSE2); due to the nature of this optimization you will gain nothing from it on MacIntel.
- the video-path (for texturing a lot of changing images, like video or
movies) to the gfx-card has been optimized. i guess you will persist on the MacIntel.
- What are your expectations or estimations on this issue?
personally, i wouldn't go for the very first MacIntels. I expect several problems (none of which i could name) which will surely get fixed within the next months.
mfg.asdr. IOhannes