Visual Studio faster on a Mac?
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Last week I interviewed a developer applying for a developer position at The Code Project. His resume said he had Mac experience so I asked about that. He said they were developing on Macs using either Parallels or Bootcamp (I forget which). He said it was because Visual Studio ran faster on Mac hardware than on a PC. Now I know comparing "Mac hardware" and "PC hardware" is an impossibly open and ill-defined comparison, but I just wanted to check if others had reached the same conclusion or had similar experiences
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I guess that you should at least know the specs of both the machines he used for the comparison. Even if you use hardware virtualization on the new MacIntel, I think it's impossible to have the virtual system run faster than a native one on a machine with identical specs. Sometimes an application just "feels" faster or slower with no reason, but I hardly believe that has something to do with hardware.
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Last week I interviewed a developer applying for a developer position at The Code Project. His resume said he had Mac experience so I asked about that. He said they were developing on Macs using either Parallels or Bootcamp (I forget which). He said it was because Visual Studio ran faster on Mac hardware than on a PC. Now I know comparing "Mac hardware" and "PC hardware" is an impossibly open and ill-defined comparison, but I just wanted to check if others had reached the same conclusion or had similar experiences
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
It might be true... You can check an article from PC World here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html[^] They said: "The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year (through 10/25/07) is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year--or for that matter, ever--is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware.". From my experience I do believe it. I have developed some CPU and GPU intensive algorithms (written in C/C++). Tests have been performed with a strong PC (dual-core, 3.8GHz, Geforce6800, which is not so good now) as well as with the MacBookPro... The median response time was 1.5 times faster with the MacBookPro (mainly because of the GPU...). Actually, this is not a good comparison, because the PC was running under Windows XP and the MacBook Pro under... MacOSX (however the source code was the same); while to evaluate the hardware, the same OS should be used. Cheers, Loic
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It might be true... You can check an article from PC World here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html[^] They said: "The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year (through 10/25/07) is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year--or for that matter, ever--is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware.". From my experience I do believe it. I have developed some CPU and GPU intensive algorithms (written in C/C++). Tests have been performed with a strong PC (dual-core, 3.8GHz, Geforce6800, which is not so good now) as well as with the MacBookPro... The median response time was 1.5 times faster with the MacBookPro (mainly because of the GPU...). Actually, this is not a good comparison, because the PC was running under Windows XP and the MacBook Pro under... MacOSX (however the source code was the same); while to evaluate the hardware, the same OS should be used. Cheers, Loic
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Last week I interviewed a developer applying for a developer position at The Code Project. His resume said he had Mac experience so I asked about that. He said they were developing on Macs using either Parallels or Bootcamp (I forget which). He said it was because Visual Studio ran faster on Mac hardware than on a PC. Now I know comparing "Mac hardware" and "PC hardware" is an impossibly open and ill-defined comparison, but I just wanted to check if others had reached the same conclusion or had similar experiences
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I suppose running VS under emulation would be the equivalent of running VS on a virgin windows OS install, without any other crud slowing down the experience. So you could probably get the same effect running VS in a VMWare box on windows.
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Last week I interviewed a developer applying for a developer position at The Code Project. His resume said he had Mac experience so I asked about that. He said they were developing on Macs using either Parallels or Bootcamp (I forget which). He said it was because Visual Studio ran faster on Mac hardware than on a PC. Now I know comparing "Mac hardware" and "PC hardware" is an impossibly open and ill-defined comparison, but I just wanted to check if others had reached the same conclusion or had similar experiences
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
The parts composing the Macs are built by the same manufacturers that provide the PC components. In other words, the hardware is basically the same... In addition, using a computer means manipulating a keyboard, mouse,...(i.e. not so much difference between a Mac and, for instance, a Dell Altitude PC) Therefore, when someone claims that he has a Mac experience, it implicitly means that he has experience using Mac OS. To use a Mac computer under Windows OS gives you only Windows experience...
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Last week I interviewed a developer applying for a developer position at The Code Project. His resume said he had Mac experience so I asked about that. He said they were developing on Macs using either Parallels or Bootcamp (I forget which). He said it was because Visual Studio ran faster on Mac hardware than on a PC. Now I know comparing "Mac hardware" and "PC hardware" is an impossibly open and ill-defined comparison, but I just wanted to check if others had reached the same conclusion or had similar experiences
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
What does he mean by "run faster? Shorter startup time? Shorter project load time? Compile time? Intellisense time? I'm running a (now ancient) Opteron 185 with 2gb under XP with IDE drives, and it's a helluvalot faster than running under Vista. Of course, I'm also not running anti-virus software either, and that REALLY gives VS2005 a speed boost.
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Last week I interviewed a developer applying for a developer position at The Code Project. His resume said he had Mac experience so I asked about that. He said they were developing on Macs using either Parallels or Bootcamp (I forget which). He said it was because Visual Studio ran faster on Mac hardware than on a PC. Now I know comparing "Mac hardware" and "PC hardware" is an impossibly open and ill-defined comparison, but I just wanted to check if others had reached the same conclusion or had similar experiences
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I am about to install Windows Vista Ultimate and VS2008 on am iMac with 2 gig of ram. I will be using VMWARE fusion and boot camp as testing platforms. Does anyone have any experience doing this? Does anyone want to hear from me about the results? Suggestions? Please don't bash Vista I have been using it for over a year and find it to be secure, and for a one year old operating system, reliable and compatible with most thing I use on windows.
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I am about to install Windows Vista Ultimate and VS2008 on am iMac with 2 gig of ram. I will be using VMWARE fusion and boot camp as testing platforms. Does anyone have any experience doing this? Does anyone want to hear from me about the results? Suggestions? Please don't bash Vista I have been using it for over a year and find it to be secure, and for a one year old operating system, reliable and compatible with most thing I use on windows.
When prediction serves as polemic, it nearly always fails. Our prefrontal lobes can probe the future only when they aren’t leashed by dogma. The worst enemy of agile anticipation is our human propensity for comfy self-delusion. David Brin Buddha Dave
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Last week I interviewed a developer applying for a developer position at The Code Project. His resume said he had Mac experience so I asked about that. He said they were developing on Macs using either Parallels or Bootcamp (I forget which). He said it was because Visual Studio ran faster on Mac hardware than on a PC. Now I know comparing "Mac hardware" and "PC hardware" is an impossibly open and ill-defined comparison, but I just wanted to check if others had reached the same conclusion or had similar experiences
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I am using VS 2008 on a Mac. VS 2008 is running on a VM. I think it is faster only when compared to another macchine with specs not as great as the Mac. SO teh comparison is not fair.
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
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Last week I interviewed a developer applying for a developer position at The Code Project. His resume said he had Mac experience so I asked about that. He said they were developing on Macs using either Parallels or Bootcamp (I forget which). He said it was because Visual Studio ran faster on Mac hardware than on a PC. Now I know comparing "Mac hardware" and "PC hardware" is an impossibly open and ill-defined comparison, but I just wanted to check if others had reached the same conclusion or had similar experiences
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I've been developing on a Mac for the last 9 months. It's running Vista Ultimate and VS2008 under parallels. I also have a machine running straight Vista with VS2008. Without getting into the specs they are pretty much the same. For me it seems the performance is comparable on both. Coherence mode under Parallels makes for a sweet environment.
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I am about to install Windows Vista Ultimate and VS2008 on am iMac with 2 gig of ram. I will be using VMWARE fusion and boot camp as testing platforms. Does anyone have any experience doing this? Does anyone want to hear from me about the results? Suggestions? Please don't bash Vista I have been using it for over a year and find it to be secure, and for a one year old operating system, reliable and compatible with most thing I use on windows.
When prediction serves as polemic, it nearly always fails. Our prefrontal lobes can probe the future only when they aren’t leashed by dogma. The worst enemy of agile anticipation is our human propensity for comfy self-delusion. David Brin Buddha Dave
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When prediction serves as polemic, it nearly always fails. Our prefrontal lobes can probe the future only when they aren’t leashed by dogma. The worst enemy of agile anticipation is our human propensity for comfy self-delusion. David Brin Buddha Dave
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When prediction serves as polemic, it nearly always fails. Our prefrontal lobes can probe the future only when they aren’t leashed by dogma. The worst enemy of agile anticipation is our human propensity for comfy self-delusion. David Brin Buddha Dave
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Last week I interviewed a developer applying for a developer position at The Code Project. His resume said he had Mac experience so I asked about that. He said they were developing on Macs using either Parallels or Bootcamp (I forget which). He said it was because Visual Studio ran faster on Mac hardware than on a PC. Now I know comparing "Mac hardware" and "PC hardware" is an impossibly open and ill-defined comparison, but I just wanted to check if others had reached the same conclusion or had similar experiences
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I actually feel the same way (running VS2008 under Fusion feels faster than even with my desktop machine). It starts faster, and I seem to get fewer "White screens of angst". What I attribute it to is a combination of the MacBook Pro having fairly good components for a laptop, and the fact that I run less stuff in the background under a VM than I would a regular machine.
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I am using VS 2008 on a Mac. VS 2008 is running on a VM. I think it is faster only when compared to another macchine with specs not as great as the Mac. SO teh comparison is not fair.
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
Have you looked into ASP .Net development directly on the Mac and which tools you would use? I'm currently wanting to do this. I'm not on a Mac just to use a VM (LAME). I have a Windows box for that... :)
