Hardmac reports on some testing done by Christophe Ducommun, developer of DVD creation software Moviegate. When optimizing his app to take advantage of Grand Central and OpenCL, the speed improvements were remarkable. For what its worth, the following test was done on 2007 quad core 2.66 Ghz Mac Pro with a GeForce 8800 GT. Snow […]
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Apple often plays an integral role in getting certain core technologies it believes in standardized across the industry. Recently, we discussed Apple’s growing role in WebKit development, and how its work on establishing HTML 5 standards also serves the purpose of making it that much harder for Flash to become a de-facto standard across browsers and […]
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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