Speed, Mac and VM
Marcel Weiher
marcel at metaobject.com
Mon Dec 2 21:19:27 UTC 2002
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 10:03 Uhr, John M McIntosh wrote:
> For one it avoid the issues in SqViewBitmapConversion.m because it
> uses the Squeak native byte format for the colorspace when creating
> the window.
This code isn't in use any longer, I draw using CoreGraphics and native
bitmap format. No conversions.
[..]
> In any case the issue really is the macintosh os-x port needs to
> change to something, because of wants to move to native BSD socket
> support, better midi support etc.
The current Cocoa VM already uses the Unix code base for most of the
low level stuff (where possible).
> I'd rather not roll those into the existing mac code base, rather
> convert to a Cocoa based implementation,
Well, the source-code is here and I'll be glad to help you.
> what sucks is the issue that the existing classic mac VM can't go
> away because it supports os-7.5.5-9.x users.
Yup.
Marcel
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