While not directly POCO-related..
sometimes on most of the popular forums it's practical to remind that:
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Still it's interesting how technology over 10 years old now is so popular as POCO-platform is
while most PC oriented-technology just fades away - i.e. many other TC's products are derived from same algorithms as POCO-platform or H5000 etc - are using.
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It takes a lot of time to develop software algorithms - in fact desktop computing is partially
living a 'software inflation' towards the power of the hardware , (around 2 GHz it was the other way around) while the deflation generated by hardware bottlenecks reflecting into the quality of software implementations have occurred many times before.
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So more mature code is generating better - faster experiment on older technology while less efficient or generally bad code is making even brand new hardware performing worse while still relying in hope of possible speed boost to be achieved by the overall architecture improvements like hyper threading , this is also why iPad's are originally a derivation of OS X 10.5 + dashboard .
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for example the latest Yosemite is running things faster than on the Mavericks (or even Mountain Lion) in some of the pre-2010 manufactured hardware , even though OS X 10.9 and 10.10 are designed to perform optimally on the latest hardware. Mavericks already had some of that effect on some areas for example adding at least 25 to 45% (or more) performance boost thru updated open-GL drivers + Open CL 1.2 which applies to the acceleration of the entire GUI. (+faster Quicktime with HD and 4k content)
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So as because of this "inflation" generated by software development towards hardware potential -
simple graphics card update then could give you a wealthy performance boost - which would have cost 5-10x times more on 2007 (or more). However it's specially interesting that Yosemite is definitely snappier / smoother / faster than Mavericks without any hardware updgrade in older macs - translating into that there's been serious changes under and over the hood with Yosemite .
10.10 and 10.9 both of them are completely free updates - add an SSD drive and you get yet another relevant system boost.
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Another example is Logic X - thru better optimization (which are also time consuming to developed and test) you get more performance in 2015 than you got for example on an mac - with the best of the money and software available at 2008 - now thats' a substantial difference .
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as code taking better advantage of multiple cores have matured during years , some people
even see the benefits of highlighting the memory architecture in cpu-design getting lesser exposure -(such as http://www.xmos.com/ or POWER 7 / 8 which are highly multi threaded) a clear transition which happened after Intel ditched the RIM-memory architecture - there were some disagreement that how multiple cores and for example the effects of cache coherency couldn't be improved/avoided just with smarter software implementations, true or false but with POCO units the performance of multiple DSP's (Motorola-PowerPC) and embedded memory is very efficient alt ought achieved with far lower frequencies than on X86.
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"The bottom line is that just one of our 100MHz DSPs offers about the same audio processing capability as one G4/500 processor." - taken from the interview of Raul Schluenzen written at http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan01/a … ercore.asp
also the latency performance of the POCO have improved in ten years.
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Despite that , this forum is a living evidence of it - the amount of driver-bug reports alone .
For such reasons among few others there has only until recently (1-3 years) come out a few fundamentally more genuine sounding or efficient plugins than for example x3, Mega reverb or 24/7.
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