Bokeh 1.0
May 9th, 2008It’s 1.0 Friday among my indie developer friends. I know some of it has to do with the impending May 12 deadline for the Apple Design Awards.
Geoff Pado released his new application, Bokeh, today. Bokeh lets users “fast track” a particular application so that it gets the majority of the CPU on a system. By stopping other applications in their tracks, a CPU-intensive operation in Photoshop, for instance, might finish more quickly.
Congrats, Geoff. Getting to 1.0 is a beautiful thing.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Excuse my OS X ignorance, but how’s this different from running the “nice” command on a console? Does the app gives you anything different to a UI that you can’t get using the command I mentioned before?
May 9th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I believe Geoff’s app uses signals to completely stop and resume the other applications. This does sound a little draconian but I imagine if you’re really trying to squeeze out the most performance possible for an app, this is an acceptable measure.
To be honest I’m not sure if you can achieve the same performance gain with “nice” – perhaps you can. But in any case I think there’s an argument to be made for having a nice UI over anything that might be achievable via the command line.