Comments on: Sometimes reading is useful… http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/06/12/sometimes-reading-is-useful/ Open Source, Modern Programming Languages, OS X, Photography, and ... Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:30:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ted Leung http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/06/12/sometimes-reading-is-useful/#comment-6271 Ted Leung Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:12:34 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/06/12/sometimes-reading-is-useful/#comment-6271 I'm not convinced that improving multicore performance is all that is needed to rectify the problems I am seeing w/ spotlight, although it will certainly help I’m not convinced that improving multicore performance is all that is needed to rectify the problems I am seeing w/ spotlight, although it will certainly help

]]> By: Sjan Evardsson http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/06/12/sometimes-reading-is-useful/#comment-6270 Sjan Evardsson Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:55:40 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/06/12/sometimes-reading-is-useful/#comment-6270 I have no way of verifying this, but it seems from the blurbage on <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/technology/multicore.html" rel="nofollow">this page</a> that Spotlight performance should be much improved. The page says: <blockquote cite="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/technology/multicore.html">Apple engineers have updated several applications in Leopard — including Mail, Address Book, and Font Utility — to be fully multicore ready. Each of these apps breaks up processor-intensive actions into a series of more manageable steps that execute one by one on single-CPU computers and in parallel on newer, multicore systems. <b>Cocoa uses that same technology to speed up Spotlight searches and Dictionary lookups.</b></blockquote> (emphasis mine) How this plays out in reality remains to be seen. I have no way of verifying this, but it seems from the blurbage on this page that Spotlight performance should be much improved. The page says:

Apple engineers have updated several applications in Leopard — including Mail, Address Book, and Font Utility — to be fully multicore ready. Each of these apps breaks up processor-intensive actions into a series of more manageable steps that execute one by one on single-CPU computers and in parallel on newer, multicore systems. Cocoa uses that same technology to speed up Spotlight searches and Dictionary lookups.

(emphasis mine)

How this plays out in reality remains to be seen.

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