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Panther production affect on DC projects?
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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Has anyone done any Before/After tests yet on DC projects with Jaguar vs Panther?
Am I out in left field for even thinking it will increase production?
TIA.
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iMac - C2D, 2.8Ghz, 4GB, 320GB
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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It shouldn't make much if any difference, even on the G5.
DC projects don't use much of the OS.
They are all specialized apps that load and run and interact little with the OS, except for the display of graphics.
Now they might do better when you are doing other things using the OS than they do do now.
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Well..I hear ya...but Linux on x86 HW will (on average) produce more WU's of a given project than Winx .. so the OS does make a difference. As do kernel optimizations.
If Panther code has been optimized, as it sounds like it has, then the OS might be doing more with less CPU which would free up more cycles for DC.
Either way, it will be fun to find out 
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Well that is sort of true, except that Win anything is major bloated code compared any other OS.
What you want to compare is a DC client on linux with a mac version on the same machine under OS X.
Then they are both using unix and will probably run about the same.
You will probably find little difference.
I run all my dedicated machines at nice of -20, so they steal as much time as possible from the OS, but these DC Clients just load up and run, they really don't interact much with anything.
Once you launch the app and it is in memory and executing, it doesn't do anything other than yield to the kernel, which doesn't happen much if the machine is only running the DC Client.
It is a completely different story if you are using the machine for other things, since the kernel has to schedule them to run as well.
Now if the DC clients get re-coded to make use of the new OS features and recompiled with newer dev tools taking advantage of say the G5, then they will go faster for sure.
We aren't to likely to see G5 specific 64bit optimized versions of DC clients though.
You should benchmark your clients on Jaguar and then check them on Panther and report back either way for fun.
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Well..I knew it would and it has. Running D2OL.
My RevA iMac with 288MB RAM was doing a straight 9 per day. It's now doing 10-11 per day That's an increase of 20%. This box does nothing all day long but crunch D2OL, so it's a best case result.
Anyone else noticed an increase with 10.3?
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