ulrik
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This one goes out to all the programmers on this forum (I never programmed anything huge on the Mac since my work is programming for WIntel machines....sadly
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The Velocity Engine seems to be one of the most important features of the G4 processor architecture. 128k processing....damn sweet. Most apps, which take advantage of that thing (Photoshop comes to my mind) excel over their PC counterpart.
When I digged through the specs of my new Quicksilver, I realised something. Apple went from one VE to FOUR! Shouldn't this have a MAJOR impact on apps supporting them? I don't know if I am understanding the VE architecture wrong, but from my coding experience on WIntel, four 128k processing units sound rather fast to me! Is this the reason why the Quicksilver is so extremely fast when it comes to encoding MPEG 2? (something which is normally only done by very expensive hardware cards in realtime).
it would be interesting to hear what you guys think about it and if I am just misunderstanding the whole system...
thanx

The Velocity Engine seems to be one of the most important features of the G4 processor architecture. 128k processing....damn sweet. Most apps, which take advantage of that thing (Photoshop comes to my mind) excel over their PC counterpart.
When I digged through the specs of my new Quicksilver, I realised something. Apple went from one VE to FOUR! Shouldn't this have a MAJOR impact on apps supporting them? I don't know if I am understanding the VE architecture wrong, but from my coding experience on WIntel, four 128k processing units sound rather fast to me! Is this the reason why the Quicksilver is so extremely fast when it comes to encoding MPEG 2? (something which is normally only done by very expensive hardware cards in realtime).
it would be interesting to hear what you guys think about it and if I am just misunderstanding the whole system...
thanx