Performance
Accordance Bible Software has long supported and continues to work on a 68K Mac with OS 7.1 through to the latest Mac computers with OS X. This capability results from the essential simplicity of the program design and perhaps a little programming genius on the part of OakTree. The simplicity of the program means performance is super-fast. Regardless of the age of your machine, most search requests (whether general or complex) and related tasks are counted in milliseconds not seconds. With Accordance 8, OakTree made the program "Universal," meaning significant speed improvements, especially at startup. In Accordance 9, "Search All" requests have been greatly improved and now are lightning fast.
From time to time, Accordance Bible Software has had bugs but these have been resolved quickly through fixes and patches available on the website. Crashes are rare, especially in the native Mac environment. Users using Accordance through Basilisk II in Windows or Linux may experience some instability in the emulator, especially if they upgrade OS7.5 to OS8, but it is important to note that this is not a problem with Accordance; these problems are a result of Basilisk II and/or OS8. On the whole, whether in its native Mac environment or in emulation, the program is very stable.
With Accordance 8 and now Accordance 9, OakTree has resolved the few performance issues that I have previously identified (e.g., cf. Accordance 6). Absurdly extensive backward compatibility and super quick speeds set this product apart not only from other Bible Software products that require the latest new machines but from virtually any other major software program out there. Can you think of another product whose latest version works virtually as well on a computer built ten years ago as one built today?
Significantly, OakTree has released Accordance 9 for the iPhone/iPad. I look forward to testing its performance in that environment.
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