The Streetfighter Blog » 10.6 http://streetfighterblog.com A man and his motorcycle Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:43:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Snow Leopard will change the world http://streetfighterblog.com/2009/09/snow-leopard-will-change-the-world/ http://streetfighterblog.com/2009/09/snow-leopard-will-change-the-world/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:34:40 +0000 Matt http://streetfighterblog.com/?p=15 . . . → Read More: Snow Leopard will change the world]]> Let me start by saying that I don’t yet have 10.6 Snow Leopard running on my home system. I’m still on a PPC Mac, so I don’t get 10.6 at home until I get a new Mac. That being said, I’m lucky enough to have access to a whole range of the latest Macs all of which are now running Snow Leopard. :D Through my own use and observations, as well as the in-depth reviews I’ve been reading online I have come to the conclusion that 10.6 will be looked back upon as the OS that changed OSes.

Yeah, Snow Leopard on the front end is a more polished version of 10.5 Leopard; but it’s the back end plumbing that really makes Snow Leopard special. Three things in particular make this the OS that will change everything:

  1. A new Xcode that makes developing multithreaded apps as painless as possible
  2. Grand Central Dispatch which makes multithreading a real world possibility
  3. OpenCL which leverages numbers 1 and 2 to provide developers an easy way to harness all the silicon in modern computers

For the first time we have an OS that was designed to truly take advantage of all the capabilities of today’s multi-core, multi-GPU computers. This really is going to change everything. The really exciting thing is that as nice as Snow Leopard is right now, it’s only going to get better.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. The technologies in 10.6 are so new it will take a while for apps to be developed that can really take advantage of the plumbing Snow Leopard has implemented. But, when they start coming out… Man! It’s going to be awesome.

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