Only 5000 places for Pi, Ferren? There's a bloke in England can
remember (no, not calculate) it to 20,000 places, so if you want to
test him you'll have to do better! ;-)
In passing it to Foo, the question would be: Was Foo actually there? ;-)
In respect of Snow Leopard -- everyone should take Brian's advice and
upgrade to it. Here's why: X.6.3 is what OS X is actually supposed to
be.
Here's how I know: Canvas X, written to OS X carbon specs, was full
of bugs. Under OS X.6.3 it now runs practically bug-free despite
nothing having been changed in Canvas X for about 5 years because it
is no longer supported for Mac. Runs in Rosetta, of course. Clearly,
all those "Canvas X bugs" we used to complain about were actually OS
X bugs.
In fact, Apple virtually admits this saying OS X.6.x is the great
clean-up and stuff.
I bet the next version of NWP will be faster and whatnot because
compromises they had to put in to accommodate Apple's buggy OS can
now be eliminated.
On the other hand, the people at VM Fusion used to have a video up
explain about OS X -- and saying that far from being a pure,
purpose-built OS, it was a lash up of odds, sods and bits from the
leftovers bowl at the back of the fridge.
And, of course, we should bear in mind that Apple doesn't use its own
OS X text engine in Pages -- they gave it its own text engine. That
should tell us something.
Cheers, Geoff
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>If possible, as a start, I suggest upgrading your System to Snow
>Leopard 10.6.x; no need to upgrade your MacBook though.
>
>In this System re-write, my understanding is that Apple has been
>able to do away with a lot of old stuff.
>------------------------
>Regards from brianF
>===============
>
>On 07/06/2010, at 6:37 PM, Ferren MacIntyre wrote:
>
>> A couple of questions, if anyone can help:
>>
>snipped
>
>> I guess the question is whether Nisus is slow because formatting and
>> unformatting RTF are intrinsically CPU intensive, or slow because
>> Nisus wraps the job and passes it to Foo who wraps it and passes it to
>> Bar ... until it works its way down to active code.
>>
>> -- Ferren
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>> (Dr) Ferren MacIntyre 1 Chemin des Echarts
>> Campagne sur Aude 11260 France
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>> OSX 10.5.8 MacBook Pro 5,1
>> 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB
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