The G4's are much faster for sequencing since they use a better SIMD than the Intel's. Performance wise the G4's rock, and IBM's new compiler for OSX should not only catapult the G5's but benefit the G4's as other benchmarks are already showing. IBM is a much better partner than Motorola for Apple. It's the kind of partner Apple needs to win their competition with Wintel in the enterprise.
All of a sudden the G4's are given a new lease on life. Expect to see a G4 equivalent from IBM soon on a 90nm process.
I'd say he has earned his ego. These results are awesome as well as IBM's partnership with Apple. With this compiler for the Mac, we will probably see IBM port their key server and desktop software to OS X as well.
These are probably IBM's first moves on their way to promoting their own processor based systems (the G5's) over the Intel based systems which they are selling at a loss right now.
Don't jump to conclusions. Read before you write. IBM is making sure the object code is binary compatible with GCC. Hooray for IBM and awesome for OS X developers.
Do your homework. Apple modified the tests to reflect the actual shipping models, since they were running on prototype G5's. These issues have long been put to rest and Apple just updated their results the other day with actual shipping G5's.
Get out of denial, x8 is not a religion, it's a processor for goodness sake.
Prove it, the Opteron alone costs $999/ processor and AMD hasn't sold more than 10,000 yet. IBM has already sold more G5's than the Opteron and Itanium combined in less than 1 Month. The Dual G5 is selling for 2699 at educational prices with 512MB of RAM, high-end GPU, SATA, PCI-X, Hyper-transport, AGP Pro 8X...
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The G4's are much faster for sequencing since they use a better SIMD than the Intel's. Performance wise the G4's rock, and IBM's new compiler for OSX should not only catapult the G5's but benefit the G4's as other benchmarks are already showing. IBM is a much better partner than Motorola for Apple. It's the kind of partner Apple needs to win their competition with Wintel in the enterprise. All of a sudden the G4's are given a new lease on life. Expect to see a G4 equivalent from IBM soon on a 90nm process.
MacBochs for $25 from OpenOSX.com
I'd say he has earned his ego. These results are awesome as well as IBM's partnership with Apple. With this compiler for the Mac, we will probably see IBM port their key server and desktop software to OS X as well. These are probably IBM's first moves on their way to promoting their own processor based systems (the G5's) over the Intel based systems which they are selling at a loss right now.
Don't jump to conclusions. Read before you write. IBM is making sure the object code is binary compatible with GCC. Hooray for IBM and awesome for OS X developers.
XBOX's Halo and now KOTOR are pretty awesome. For the cost, get both a XBOX and PS/2 and you'll never work again.
Do your homework. Apple modified the tests to reflect the actual shipping models, since they were running on prototype G5's. These issues have long been put to rest and Apple just updated their results the other day with actual shipping G5's. Get out of denial, x8 is not a religion, it's a processor for goodness sake.
Bochs does and OPenOSX.com claims that MacBochs for the G4 is just as fast as VPC. So who needs VPC anyway?
Prove it, the Opteron alone costs $999/ processor and AMD hasn't sold more than 10,000 yet. IBM has already sold more G5's than the Opteron and Itanium combined in less than 1 Month. The Dual G5 is selling for 2699 at educational prices with 512MB of RAM, high-end GPU, SATA, PCI-X, Hyper-transport, AGP Pro 8X...