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20031028 Tuesday October 28, 2003

Panther vs. Jaguar ~ The results are in! According to my performance tests, Panther is faster than Jaguar for most things Java related. Compiling whole projects with Ant is a few seconds faster. Opening IDEA is only 1-2 seconds faster. Opening Eclipse is actually slower. Booting is considerably faster - they've managed to trim off 1/3 of the boot up time.

I really like Panther so far, but I've discovered today that my 3rd party memory will have to come out and stay out. I've had 5+ black screens of death and after talking to tech support from OWC, they've confirmed there is an issue with all 3rd party RAM. They said they'd be tracking down the issue and getting me a replacement ASAP.

Things I dig the most: the Finder (more like Windows Explorer), Mail and Expose. I can't figure out what Expose's "Application windows" is for - it just seems to highlight the current app I'm in.

Things that suck? Photoshop gives errors on startup but continues to run. Ant puked at one point but seems to work fine now. A few of the haxies I've purchased aren't available yet (for Panther). XCode kinda sucks too - it forces you to use it's directory structure for projects. It looks cool, but we all know that good IDEs don't force you to do anything.

Posted in Java at Oct 28 2003, 01:18:40 PM MST 3 Comments

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Shoudn't "Aplication windows" bring to front ALL windows that belong to that particular app you are in? Like, you know, GIMP with it's multi-windowed UI.

Posted by Filip on October 28, 2003 at 02:36 PM MST #

Yes. "Application windows" focuses/highlights/tiles all the windows for the currently active app. It's quite useful when you've got a mountain of editor or voodoopad windows floating around.

Posted by Charles Miller on October 28, 2003 at 03:18 PM MST #

... and particularly Finder windows.

Posted by Simon Brown on October 29, 2003 at 05:55 AM MST #

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