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Early Tiger Benchmarks Show Slight Speed-Ups

Posted by timothy on from the fine-tuning-ahead dept.

GatorMarc writes "Geek Patrol has published early speed benchmark tests on Tiger. Despite the fact that Tiger is still in development, the results are promising. Could we see a similar performance improvement as we did upgrading from Jaguar to Panther?"

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  1. Give me a break... by Chief+Typist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This release was obviously pulled together for the conference -- a Herculean effort by the engineers at Apple to show what will be available in a year for now. A wonderful release for us third-party developers!

    No one in their right mind is going to think that this release is fit for benchmarking. There may be some gains that are side effects of internal changes (new versions of gcc, etc.), but anyone with a clue will realize that minimal optimization has been done.

    When they say DEVELOPER PREVIEW they mean it...

    -ch

    1. Re:Give me a break... by (mandos) · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So, if we're already seeing gains in the "unoptimized" version, then we should see some great speedups in the final version a year from now. Seems to me that these benchmarks do serve a purpose by letting us know that we are getting "Bigger, Better, and Faster" rather then the Windows version of that, which is typically slower.

      Mike Scanlon

  2. Re:Move along by foidulus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't most of the speed increases come closer towards the end of the development cycle? I know that is usually the case for games.

  3. Re:Move along by radicalskeptic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah. And Tiger is to be released in the first half of 2005. Which gives them between 5-11 months to make these changes.

    I think it's just too early to tell how fast the final release is going to be, since there's probably 3/4 of a year more development to be done.

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  4. Missing the big picture by Cycline3 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I think everyone has missed the bigger picture here. As OS X evolves - it gets better AND faster. I run both PCs and Macs at home and the office and I can say that with every new version of Linux and Windows, the new features have cost in terms of performance. Only OS X has repeatedly delivered speed and features. Say what you will, but Apple is just doing something right with OS X. I can't imagine being stuck in a Windows (or Linux) only world after using OS X for an extended time. Kudos to Apple. I for one am eagerly awaiting Tiger's official release.

    -Sean