HTTP:: Quick Tip Greet Snow Leopard with Universal Binaries
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As avid Softpedia readers should know by now, Apple is widely believed to have given the order for mass production of Snow Leopard install discs. Last week’s Build 10A432, claimed to be the Golden Master edition of the software, is seemingly arriving even sooner than expected. So, why not greet Snow Leopard with some software that can really make it work fast? Launched after Apple’s transition to Intel processors, Rosetta is a lightweight dynamic translator for the Mac. Distributed with Mac OS X, it enables applications compiled for the PowerPC family of processors to run on Intel processors. If you skip installing Rosetta in Snow Leopard, some of your PowerPC-only apps may not work anymore. On the other hand, if you do install Rosetta, those apps will work, but they will have a slower performance than their universal binary counterparts, because Rosetta takes its toll on the CPU to do instruction translations. So, the best logical choice is to update those apps to Un!
iversal Binary. Not all of them will have their Universal counterpart, but most will. Years have passed since the transition from PowerPC to Intel, so most developers (and implicitly their software) have gone Universal. To check which of your apps are PowerPC-only, fire up System Profiler and go to the “...
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