- Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:13 am
#16694
As some of you may know, each G5 processor is equipped with two floating point units, and has additional features like a hardware root.
To use and to benefit from this features, you mustn't usethe Metrowerks compiler, as Metrowerks apparently has stopped compiler development before the G5 - and frankly it looks like it's dead in the water
The IBM compiler seems to be best in terms of number crunching performance, and as the Maxwell renderer is a command line app that is probably written in standard C++, this shouldn't be a major problem.
Any insight if we will see G5 specific stuff in Maxwell?
Thanks
Kabe - eagerly waiting for the Cinema plugin
To use and to benefit from this features, you mustn't usethe Metrowerks compiler, as Metrowerks apparently has stopped compiler development before the G5 - and frankly it looks like it's dead in the water
The IBM compiler seems to be best in terms of number crunching performance, and as the Maxwell renderer is a command line app that is probably written in standard C++, this shouldn't be a major problem.
Any insight if we will see G5 specific stuff in Maxwell?
Thanks
Kabe - eagerly waiting for the Cinema plugin