Mac 3.0 benchmarks
Andrew C. Greenberg
werdna at mucow.com
Thu Feb 8 13:01:59 UTC 2001
>Similar issue on the mac. The calls to get all the information are
>more expensive and you run the risk of giving up control to other
>application hence the poor numbers. In the past polling for mouse
>location for example used a simple/cheap call but this has been
>changed because of how the event driven stuff works.
Is that necessary? On the MacOS, for example, the event queue is
"bypassed" and single/cheap calls are used for tracking feedback in
what Raskin calls quasimodal events, particularly highlighting and
outlining types of interactions.
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