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Date: Sun 05-Nov-1991 18:49:47 From: samurai@mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy Brockbank) Subject: SGI vs. NeXT Michael Portuesi writes > In article <1991Nov3.172230.7450@netnews.whoi.edu>, > I find it difficult to believe any kind of blanket statement > such as this one - could you please cite the aspects of the > NeXTdimension's graphics performance you found faster than > the Indigo? Does it draw 2D lines faster? Bit-blits? 3D lines? Does it? I would suppose that you people have some tests that you've done (by the nature of your statements.) How DO they stack up against one another? Personally I'm betting on the ND, but I really don't know so why not fill me (us!) in? > Lighted, Gouruad-shaded polygons? Can it perform texture-mapping, > antialiasing, depth-of-field, fog, and motion blur effects > faster than Indigo? Is Display PostScript faster on the NeXT > than it is on Indigo? > > and provides services for them. What is it like to use NeXTStep > and Interface Builder from a C or Fortran program? I don't know much about FORTRAN, but I know that Absoft has FORTRAN77 for the NeXT. It is fully integrated into the NeXT machine, which means that you can debug it with GDB, and build interfaces using InterfaceBuilder. be quite a nice package. And of course, doing development for C on the NeXT is a snap. > > Lastly, even though NeXTStep + Interface Builder are excellent > tools for leveraging much of the work in developing an interface, > I'm interested to know what tools NeXT provides for the rest of > the picture - such development tasks as > > * debugging > * performance analysis and tuning (including profiling > and monitoring memory use) > * static analysis GDB is a powerful debugger, and better than the others that I've used. You can also get the GUI front end if you want. However, I find it better just to use it with emacs. gprof is available for profiling. I'm sure there's more... > > SGI provides an integrated set of visual tools which handle > these tasks in depth for C, C++ and Fortran developers. You may get bonus points for bundling these, but if you are just talking about availablity, then I don't believe there is much more to gain by using a SGI machine (besides the C++, I don't know anything about that) in the above areas. > Again, I think that you should look carefully before you utter > statements such as "markedly better development platform." This is true. One shouldn't say which is better without having the opportunity to develop on both platforms. - db _________________________________________________________________ | | *less expensive ascii version of my sig ==== | | o o | Darcy Brockbank ============================ | | > | samurai@uriel.cs.mcgill.ca ================ =|---- | | \__/ | SOCS system staff, McGill University ======= | | | I believe in coyotes... ==================== | ----------------------------------------------------------------- PS. Isn't the Indigo really more of a Purple? I always thought that indigo was more blueish...
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