[vorbis-dev] Optimisations

[Chris Hanson]

At 5:26 PM -0800 11/16/00, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>The gcc extensions are official Apple-sanctioned extensions.  If
>CodeWarrior doesn't support them yet, it almost certainly will.  By the
>time OS X becomes final, I suspect those extensions will be so
>indoctrinated in MacOS software that they won't have much choice.

To my knowledge, CodeWarrior supported *Motorla* AltiVec extensions 
before GCC did.

Also, you speak as if you believe most Macintosh development will be 
done with GCC by the time Mac OS X becomes final.  This is incorrect; 
Metrowerks CodeWarrior will be the standard compiler and development 
environment for Macintosh developers for a long time to come. 
Apple's ProjectBuilder is not a very good development environment, 
and none of the tools Apple ships support building PEF binaries.

(PEF is the executable and library format used on MacOS 9.  If you 
write Carbon applications and use PEF rather than Mach-O as your 
binary format, your applications will run natively on both MacOS 9 
and Mac OS X.  For most companies, this is a commercial necessity.)


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