I can't imagine why anyone in his right mind would want to do such comparisons? For god's sake, what productivity is he talking about? The differences were less than a second!!!

For argument sake, look at the benckmarks. He included launch app, find/replace, open, paste, arrange, format, fill bla bla bla..... Most of the functions were completed in less than 2 seconds. How much more productive do you want it to be???? To complete a function in 0.01 seconds??!!??!!

BTW, I guess the new mac is so productive that it does everything <0.1s? Which does nothing to the normal user as our reaction time is not that great either!!!

Furthermore, the tests were performed on only one single app opened! Try adding a firewall, a RTS anti-virus, anti-spyware, Bittorrent and folding.

I mean, just to compare these basic functions is pointless. Why are we even discussing this????

That's definitely true. Software nowadays comes with so many functions and has to load so many codes e.g. APIs that they are slightly slower.

However, this does not mean that productivity is reduced!!!

If the author really want a comparison, somebody could just write a simple software for dual-core that does all the function that he compared. Probably just need a few lines of codes anyway...... Then, we can assess whether it is slower. Anyway, what's the point, the differences is too insignificant!

That would be ideal but not in this day and age.

Software companies are producing apps that caters for everybody. They can't be making softwares that only cater for a certain segment of the market.

Take Microsoft word for instance. Frankly speaking, I only use it for typing notes, spelling check, thesaurus, some tables and pictures. That's all. However, there are other functions that I don't use but is used by other people like simple drawing, formulas, review, web page design, etc. And sometimes, there are those rare functions that I need that is available in Word.

Take the generic Paint program in windows as another example. It is so simple and easy to use, I usually use it to edit simple pictures to paste in this forum. However, when I want to do something more advance, the program doesn't have that function. So I have to resort to big-bulky full-of-functions/code apps like photoshop to edit the pictures.

Then there are people who start complaining that a certain app is not good as it does not have this function or that function. Imaging if microsoft word does not have the automatic spell-checker.......

Yup. I still remember the days when people talk about code optimization. Assembly (ASM) language was the best!! However, it was also a pain in the neck to programme and virtually impossible to write for programs these days as there are million and million lines of codes......

Wow! That's deep but informative. Not for average users like me!

Thx for the info!

Just curious, do average programmers do ASM these days?

This post has been edited by kmarc: Jun 3 2007, 02:44 PM