Performance
As already pointed out, Accordance Bible Software performs on a 68K Mac with OS 7.1 through to the latest G5 PowerMacs 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 your machine, most search requests (whether general or complex) and related tasks are counted in milliseconds not seconds. The only exception I discovered were "Search All" requests; this utility, as I also noted in my comments on the interface, needs some work.
From time to time, Accordance Bible Software has had bugs but these have been resolved quickly through fixes and patches available on the website. Even so, 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.
Some OS X junkies may be disappointed that Accordance remains a carbon app and not a cocoa app. In reality, cocoa and carbon apps are virtually indistinguishable. Apple completely supports carbon apps and will do so into the foreseeable future. As such, OakTree does not plan to release a cocoa version of Accordance for OS X in the near future. If they did so, it would mean that they would have to release two separate versions of the software: one exclusively for OS X and one for OS 7 through OS 9.
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