Re: Thoughts on monopoly sizing

On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 09:21  AM, Adam Megacz wrote:
> Y'know, I'm not really convinced that Quartz Extreme uses hardware to
> accelerate 2D vector graphics.  Do you have any documentation on this?

Looks like you're right. Quartz 2D does the job, and it's not on the  
GPU.

http://a32.g.akamai.net/7/32/51/e3f09c3d615efe/www.apple.com/macosx/ 
pdfs/Quartz_TB.pdf

I'm surprised. I thought their inspiration was the 2D direct rendering  
that DirectFB does. Instead, Quartz Extreme is all about managing the  
windows as OpenGl textures.

> Yeah, but resizing a window sure does! =) Seriously, why is resizing
> windows in OSX so dog-slow and everything else is super quick and
> responsive?

It's pathetic. Especially considering they claim this job has been  
moved mostly to the GPU with Quartz Extreme.

You haven't found an option for outline resize yet, have you?

d


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