| Mixing 16 and 24bit files? [message #62318] |
Tue, 03 January 2006 20:07  |
JD
Messages: 15 Registered: July 2005
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ed to earlier, they could
knock down the learning curve a bit with some thoughtful design
decisions to get some functions out of the environment window, and they
could improve the visual feedback and layo
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| Re: Mixing 16 and 24bit files? [message #62370 is a reply to message #62330] |
Wed, 04 January 2006 08:54  |
Tony Benson
 Messages: 453 Registered: June 2006
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ons that were never vectorized. I weep for them, those sad
>little calculations so ill treated by the generic floating point units on
>the PPC chips. The never had a chance! sob sob . . .
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>TCB
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>"LaMont" <jjdpro@ameritech.net> wrote:
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>>Hi James..
>>You wrote: "Altivec is a definite factor
>>in how a G4 and G5 perform. I think that is why they went with dual core
>>Intel chips, to make up some of the performance loss".
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>>I have to disagree here. There were only a hand full of vendors that were
>>actually taking advantage of the Altivec engine(Audio ease-Altiverb), and
>>Adobe PhotoShop. A lot of third party developers did not jump onthe Altivec
>>wagon. Even our Edmund Parelli, stated that "recoding an App to use the
>velocity
>>engine was a major task that many , including himself was not willing to
>>do"..
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>>So, where di that leave Appple?? Well, if left them with having to "fabricate"
>>speed test and other outlandish performance statments. All while, trying
>>to convince IMB to make a better faster PPC CPU. Well, as you know, a year
>>pasted on the Dual G5, which was still using 7 year cpu technology, Apple
>>was was lsoing badly in t
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