dammy wrote:
Until it's unleashed from it's PPC chains, not a hell of alot IMO. In today's rapidly changing arch landscape, it's madness to be chained to any given arch as a OS and survive.
Dammy
IMHO, they should release it for the MacMini, MacBook, and as many other PowerPC machines as possible before even considering puting time and effort into switching to another architecture. We need more users now, not years from now.
BTW, most OSes are chained to a specific architecture. Every transition to a new one requires writing an emulator to support old software. Plus, your application/games developers won't like you if you keep switching on them. I'm not a big fan of those write once, compile to a VM, and then run under JIT everywhere thingies. I do a lot of intensive data processing, and a JIT would only slow things down when compared to code written specifically for the target architecture.
Hans
