Man that takes me back, it used to be pretty common to see Mac apps advertise their leverage of AltiVec, even for “consumer” stuff. It may be entirely imaginar

Man that takes me back, it used to be pretty common to see Mac apps advertise their leverage of AltiVec, even for “consumer” stuff. It may be entirely imaginary but I always felt like the PowerPC versions of OS X were more responsive than their Intel counterparts, despite running on CPUs that were at a disadvantage in terms of clock speed. I wonder how much of that was due to the PowerPC arch itself.