Is QuarkXpress utilized by Altivec?
If I go down to a G3 iBook, I'm a bit concerned with some programs I use on a regular basis running slower.
Now I don't plan to layout designs in Quark on the iBook but to occasionally open files.
So my question is what programs really make use of Altivec? Specifically these:
1) Quark Xpress
2) Illustrator
3) Filemaker
4) AppleWorks
thanks
Now I don't plan to layout designs in Quark on the iBook but to occasionally open files.
So my question is what programs really make use of Altivec? Specifically these:
1) Quark Xpress
2) Illustrator
3) Filemaker
4) AppleWorks
thanks
Comments
<strong>Nope, I don't think QuarkExpress helps AltiVec at all. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Har de har har. My error...but i think you know what i mean. :-)
Most of the code is a decade old, even QXP 5. Xpress does take advantage of Classic's use of dual processors (Since Xpress is a sub-app of Classic and Classic can be more responsive under dual systems).
If rumor has it correctly, Xpress 6 (due in early 2003), will be a complete re-write of Xpress and MAY take advantage of the Velocity Engine (VE) (Altivec/IBM's SIMD). If the re-write is Cocoa-based (I don't know) then Xpress may take more advantage of the VE due to tweaking of the Cocoa frameworks by Apple, over time.
IF it's a carbon port, it will likely be the last or second-to-last version of XPress ever. Of course, InDesign will bury Xpress long before then. :-)
Now I'm curious, has this been attempted in comercial products? I assume that academia has been working on parallized layout algorithms involving predictive branching... (?)