Mac/PowerPC optimalizations?

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Cureseekers~Wilko Send message Joined: 6 Nov 05 Posts: 1 Credit: 9,742 RAC: 0	Message 2576 - Posted: 7 Nov 2005, 15:54:42 UTC Will there be optimalizations for PowerPC CPUs? It appears the AltiVec engine isn't used by Rosetta, which -if used- could speed up crunching a lot. ID: 2576 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

David E K Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Jul 05 Posts: 1018 Credit: 4,334,829 RAC: 0	Message 2581 - Posted: 7 Nov 2005, 18:11:53 UTC I'll be looking into this. We had issues compiling rosetta to support 10.3.9 and up and the solution prevents us from being able to use altivec. It's a trade off, either we support 10.3.9 w/o being able to add altivec or only support 10.4, and since there are still a lot of 10.3.9 users, we decided on the former. ID: 2581 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Tern Send message Joined: 25 Oct 05 Posts: 576 Credit: 4,695,362 RAC: 7	Message 2604 - Posted: 8 Nov 2005, 5:56:33 UTC - in response to Message 2581. I'll be looking into this. We had issues compiling rosetta to support 10.3.9 and up and the solution prevents us from being able to use altivec. It's a trade off, either we support 10.3.9 w/o being able to add altivec or only support 10.4, and since there are still a lot of 10.3.9 users, we decided on the former. See the Team MacNN boards for how they got around this on their SETI client - the libraries changed between 10.3.9 and 10.4, but you can compile under 10.4 for either, it just takes an extra step. ID: 2604 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

David Baker Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 705 Credit: 559,847 RAC: 0	Message 2610 - Posted: 8 Nov 2005, 7:51:23 UTC We will be distributing the code really soon--it would be great if people could try Bill's suggestion out and let us all know how it goes! ID: 2610 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote