Celestia Forums

Hi, I've managed to become confused :? Is the Apple-optimized version something a user like me should try to download and use, or should I wait to see how it all shakes out and download a user-version that you kindly folks direct me to in a post here...? Sorry, I'm not explaining things well. :') D...

Is there really a speed improvement over the actual 1.3.2 OS X made by Hank, from the version available at the Apple site ? Anyone compiled and experimented the Apple version ? How is it ? Any comments ? I downloaded the files available from the Apple web site, but most of them are just code source...

I did a few tests tonight using Apple's source on my lowly G4 laptop, and here's what I get: Baseline vs. 'Warp 8' (sadly I can't use the G5 optimizations in Warp 9), I get somewhere around 64 to 65 times the acceleration. It's hard because 'baseline' takes over 10 minutes (640+ seconds), and 'Warp ...

I'm curious if anyone has taken a look at Apple's optimizations of Celestia using Shark? They used Celestia as a case study for performance optimization: http://developer.apple.com/tools/sharkoptimize.html I'm just beginning to play with it now. Optimizations (which you can switch on the fly while r...