Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 7 Feb 2004, at 05:07, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> > There's another point I must mention - an app compiled with GnuStep 
> > under Red
> > Hat is an order of magnitude slower, in some areas, than one compiled 
> > using
> > XCode.
>
> Any hard numbers on this?   If you've got a comparison between two 
> machines of
> comparable power, I would like to see this.   Are you certain that 
> apps, in
> general, aren't slower on your Linux machine.  Unless, of course, 
> you're
> running PPC Linux on a dual boot G4/G5 Mac.

I *have* run benchmarks when I had a dual boot machine in the past ,,, 
and when I did there
were cases where there were performance differences of an order of 
magnitude or more.

However, those differences were not all in favour of MacOs-X ... in 
fact, with the set
of cases chosen, GNUstep was more often the faster system.  That being 
said, there
was probably some unconscious bias in the set of tests I chose.

What is for certain is that it's quite easy to get big performance 
differences depending
on exactly what you are doing, and those performance differences may 
favour either
system ... but when a particular operation in GNUstep is found to be 
inefficient, you
can replace it with a more efficient version.