How much can I get for my G5? — #30

Post #30 by Mike Richardson

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	PowerPC
Post Date	Thu, 19 Nov 2009 - 10:00
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/how-much-can-i-get-for-my-g5.18519/

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I have 10.5 on my G5. I don't see why you should limit yourself to 10.4. Just get a nice souped up G4 to run your Classic apps, and then you can run them on the real OS 9 and not in the environment.

My OS 9 rig has a 1.8 GHz Single G4 processor (got lucky at the recycler one day) and 1 GB RAM. Since OS 9 can't use dual processors anyway the speed is actually faster than Classic Environment on my G5.

I'm worried they're going to take a page from Google (the company I love to hate these days) and start using architecture-specific JavaScript JITs like V8, which currently only runs on x86 and ARM because -- supplies! -- no one has done the work to convert to POWER opcodes. Unfortunately, it's the next logical step.

Does Safari 4 have a JavaScript JIT? I know it has some kind of faster JavaScript deal in it. That means they had to support PowerPC specifically, so hopefully we'll get to hold on to it for a little while. (or were they lazy bastards and just left in the old code for PPC???)

Mozilla has had some internal discussions about causing the runtime to require some of 10.5's built-in APIs such as Core Data.

What will it achieve though? They can store data some way right now so why change only the Mac version arbitrarily to "Core Data" when everyone else is using "some proprietary method" which works fine? I also thought Core Data was in Tiger.