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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."

3 of 256 comments (clear)

  1. 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.

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

    I almost threw up.

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

    I always read it as "Slow Leopard"