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Snow Leopard performance drop (Read 1260 times)
jeffg
Snow Leopard performance drop
Sep 5th, 2009, 8:05am  
Ok, I just got a new MacBook Pro.. Snow Leopard, 8 Gig of Memory, 3Giz, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory (yes I enabled the high performance chip).  You can't build a faster 15" MacBook Pro.

So I fire up my processing app to see the nice performance improvement... not.  Frame rates dropped by 25%.  ??   Cry

After posting this, I noticed Processing 1.07 and upgraded, but no real improvement in performance.  My old MacBook still beats my new one by at least 20fps.
Related thread on SL performance: http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/?num=1251744370
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yconst
Re: Snow Leopard performance drop
Reply #1 - Sep 16th, 2009, 8:35am  
I had the same issue on Leopard though, some time ago. I found out after some random searching that changing the preferred Java Version in Utilities>System Preferences worked out and I was back at normal framerate. I don't really remember which Java version I used, I am on Snow Leopard myself now so the only thing I can see is JRE 6....

But in my case it used to be a choice between 1.5 and 1.42?

I don't even know what altered these settings in the first place, maybe a Software Update or something...

Hope this helps.
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Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou
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