Any new OSX optimization news?

mellomello
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
Just wondering if there is any new info about apple recompiling OSX with that

IBM compiler? (I remember reading about it awhile back.) If I remember

correctly there was supposed to be some major speed increases because of it.



Do you think that will come about with version 10.4?

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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    zapchudzapchud Posts: 844member
    We'll have to see. Currently, the Objective-C part of XLC is experimental, but they're working on it. Without proper Obj-C support, only smaller parts of the OS can be recompiled.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    123123 Posts: 278member
    Isn't Obj-C first translated to c anyway?
  • Reply 3 of 3
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    Objective-C was originally precompiled into C (as was C++), but it's had its own compiler in GCC for years and years now.
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