[OSX-Users] Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard

[Daniel Thorpe]

Also.... I'm sure most of you (certainly the more geeky) will have  
read John Siracusa's Snow Leopard review. If not, it's incredibly  
detailed, and page 5 discusses 64 bit stuff, including the benefits of  
a 64 bit kernel - see http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/5 
.

The rest of the review is great, particularly the compiler/blocks/ 
concurrency stuff, from page 9 onwards. If anyone programs using Cocoa  
for their research, I strongly recommend looking into leveraging grand  
central dispatch. It's made my thread management code vanish!

Cheers
Dan

On 7 Sep 2009, at 14:08, David Tarrant wrote:

> It might be worth noting that while Snow Leopard is 64bit ready, it  
> doesn't boot the 64 bit kernel by default. Thus you will not be  
> getting the speed ups which may result from the change to 64 bit.
>
> http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-64bit.html
>
> Haven't tried it yet myself as i'm not with my snow leopard mac at  
> the moment.
>
> Dave T
>
> On 7 Sep 2009, at 12:25, David Millard wrote:
>
>> I've upgraded laptops at the same time, but even so I haven't  
>> noticed much change.
>>
>> I am having an odd problem with Firefox though - it seems to  
>> stutter or pause every few seconds (most noticeable when watching  
>> video, but its also true for things like typing in forms and other  
>> interactions). Safari is fine.
>>
>> Its quite disconcerting if you click on a link and there is a 1  
>> second pause before anything happens. Anyone else seen this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> On 7 Sep 2009, at 12:03, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>>
>>> First impression: very little has changed.
>>>
>>> Second impression: every problem I've had so far has been related  
>>> to either the indexing for Spotlight, or with multiple/corrupt  
>>> fonts.
>>>
>>> (at least it's now past the stage where Finder hung fifteen  
>>> seconds after startup, and I can now run both Word and Powerpoint.  
>>> Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 still crashes hard)
>>> -- 
>>> Dr Nicholas Gibbins                                     nmg at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>> Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nmg/
>>> School of Electronics and Computer Science         tel: +44 (0) 23  
>>> 80598879
>>> University of Southampton                          fax: +44 (0) 23  
>>> 80592865
>>
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>> Dr. David Millard (dem at ecs.soton.ac.uk)
>> University of Southampton
>>
>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dem
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>>
>>
>>
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