G5/Panther and Rev

[Alex Rice]

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 06:20  AM, Ken Norris wrote:

> I don't know what SIMD is. Can you explain?

Also the G5's SIMD unit is identical to "Altivec" which has existed 
since the G4. So if nobody made a G4 plugin for Runrev, it's probably 
not going to happen for G5's either.

The other aspect to the G5 is it's 64-bit ness. I don't know what that 
means from a practical perspective for a product like runrev. Probably 
not a whole lot. Other than your app could use 8 GB of memory if it 
wanted to!

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com