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Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs

Posted by kdawson on from the see-you-at-the-base-camp dept.

DJRumpy writes in to alert us that Apple's new OS, Snow Leopard, is apparently nearing completion. "Apple this past weekend distributed a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that altered the programming methods used to optimize code for multi-core Macs, telling developers they were the last programming-oriented changes planned ahead of the software's release. ...`Apple is said to have informed recipients of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A354 that it has simplified the`... APIs for working with Grand Central, a new architecture that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of Macs with multiple processing cores. This technology works by breaking complex tasks into smaller blocks, which are then`... dispatched efficiently to a Mac's available cores for faster processing."

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  1. Snow leopard is such an apt codename by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spread your tiny wings and fly away,
    And take the snow back with you
    Where it came from on that day.
    The one I love forever is untrue,
    And if I could you know that I would
    Fly away with you.

    In a world of good and bad, light and dark, black and white, it remains very hopeful that Apple still sees itself as a beacon of purity. It pushes them to do good things to reinforce their own self-image.

    I can't wait to try this latest OS!

    1. Re:Snow leopard is such an apt codename by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I almost threw up.

  2. Re:What's up with the punctuation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps the editor doesn't know how to edit?

    Oh wait, kdawson, never mind.

  3. Re:Any details on Grand Central? by A12m0v · · Score: 2, Funny

    it works automagically
    this is Apple after all
    MAGIC!

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  4. Re:What's up with the punctuation by Ihmhi · · Score: 1, Funny

    kdawson is... doing... his Captain... Kirk... impression. Mr. Taco, Warp Factor... 10.

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  5. i don't know you but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always read it as "Slow Leopard"

  6. Re:What's up with the punctuation by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Funny

    That is, until some clever writer begins including square-bracketed ellipses in his or her text \[. . .\].

    We just need escape codes :)

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