Developers who are not already using XCode are saying that this is going to be somewhat bumpier for them than the 68k-to-PPC transition was, and I distinctly remember that taking a while.
I should add, for people who might be freaked out by this, that in one way the transition is likely to be smoother for users than the 68k-to-PPC transition was. One thing that slowed down the early PowerPC Macs running 7.x was that large chunks of the operating system were running under emulation as 68k code. The frequently-used stuff had all transitioned by OS 8.0, and the fraction of 68k code in the system gradually declined as time went on (but I don't think it ever dwindled entirely to zero until Mac OS X; these transitions always seem to be brought to a full close only by the next big transition).
That shouldn't be the case this time around, since Apple's been compiling Mac OS X as native Intel code from the beginning.
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Date: 2005-06-09 08:34 pm (UTC)I should add, for people who might be freaked out by this, that in one way the transition is likely to be smoother for users than the 68k-to-PPC transition was. One thing that slowed down the early PowerPC Macs running 7.x was that large chunks of the operating system were running under emulation as 68k code. The frequently-used stuff had all transitioned by OS 8.0, and the fraction of 68k code in the system gradually declined as time went on (but I don't think it ever dwindled entirely to zero until Mac OS X; these transitions always seem to be brought to a full close only by the next big transition).
That shouldn't be the case this time around, since Apple's been compiling Mac OS X as native Intel code from the beginning.