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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. No way. Really? by rf600r · · Score: 0, Troll

    A new version of an operating system might be slightly faster previous version. Maybe. Holy shit, this calls for a /. article.

  2. Re:OS X, keeps getting better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you did a low-level comparison, you'd find Windows to be a more advanced design than OSX, and you'd find that Windows has tons more capabilities (APIs) than OSX. Furthermore, Microsoft always writes their own, while Apple mooches a lot of commodity open source parts.

    Frankly most Apple users are just happy to have real multitasking, and are willing to excuse the fact that OS X is a bunch of legacy and opensource parts haphazardly glued together in a way that manages to underperform amateur OSes like Linux.

    Apple does concentrate their R&D where it counts for marketing -- nice UI flash.

    A good example is "Dashboard" -- Windows has had the same thing for 8 years, but Jobs could made it seem oh soo sexy.