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PowerBook Performance for Java Development?

Posted by Cliff on from the real-world-numbers dept.

brasten wants to get to the core of this issue: "I'm in the market for a new development notebook. I would like to jump into the Apple world and pick up a PowerBook. However, compiling very large Java applications of course takes some time, and so raw processing speed is a factor. I have been unable to find solid data on how fast a 1.33GHz PowerBook runs against the modern x86-based notebooks. Does anybody have any information that could help me compare?"

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  1. Re: My Impressions.. by Textbook+Error · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Apple's XCode and Project Builder have a pretty good reputation, I think.

    Actually they have a spectacularly lousy reputation - ProjectBuilder was woeful, and while Xcode has made a lot of improvements (primarily in precompiled headers) it (or rather gcc) is still noticeably slower than CodeWarrior. If your time is money, a 40 minute build vs 2 hours makes CW a pretty easy choice.

    Xcode does have distributed builds and MP support, but they probably won't be of much use if you're working on a single PowerBook.

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