Re: [Fresco-devel] Quartz Extreme

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On Thursday 05 September 2002 18:25, Rajit Singh wrote:
> In case any of you _are_ interested in Quartz Extreme, I thought I would
> point you to one description of it:

Of course we _are_ interessted in what others (proprietary and free software 
people) do.  I just don't really know what to say about it... You got a 
highly specialized piece of hardware for graphic operations in allmost all 
new computers. It is only natural to try to use it for a GUI environment.

> http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/macosx-10.2/macosx-10.2-8.html#qe

Thanks for the link, it's one of the better summaries I read on Jaguar.

> It's not developer-level info, but it provides a useful quick understanding
> of how QE improvements aren't really related to vector-library
> optimizations or acceleration, but purely compositing.
>
> I would imagine Fresco would be capable of utilising acceleration in
> more than just compositing acceleration (is there even a compositing
> stage?)

Sure there is, we are not just dumping things onto the screen, are we? ;-)

We (can) use OpenGL for rendering. Of course -- since we are device 
independent -- we do not rely on GL: It's just a fairly full featured 
graphics library with excellent hardware support to us.

- -- 
Gruss,
Tobias

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