Re: IDL 6.2 on intel mac? [message #49948] |
Sat, 26 August 2006 11:27 |
Kenneth P. Bowman
Messages: 585 Registered: May 2000
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In article <1156612340.287206.315680@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
"rita" <pimpk24@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if any of you have any experience running IDL 6.2 with
> the new macs under the Rossetta emulator/translator. I understand that
> it *can* be done, but how well does it perform in this non-native
> enviroment?
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> Note: I saw there is a newer Intel based release of IDL, but alas,
> there is no student version!
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> thanks..
IDL seems to run fine under emulation. You can find a few benchmarks
here
http://idl.tamu.edu/mac_bench.php
and if you search this newsgroup for something like "mac intel
benchmark", you will find a few other postings.
A few folks in my department have recently gotten Mac Pros, so I'll try
and run the benchmarks when I get a chance.
Ken Bowman
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