[RFI]Mac performance gap between OS-9 and OSX

Nevin Pratt nevin at smalltalkpro.com
Tue Aug 5 18:11:13 UTC 2003



Karsten Wolf wrote:

>
> Am Dienstag, 05.08.03 um 17:22 Uhr schrieb tblanchard at mac.com:
>
>> Have you tried Ian's unix vm?
>
>
> Yes. Same slow thing (465s).
>
>
>

Of course, OS/X is the latest incarnation of NeXTSTEP.  And, in the good 
ol' NeXTSTEP days, there was a kit/library available that would bypass 
the NeXTSTEP Display Postscript primitives (with OS/X, that would be the 
Quartz stuff, I guess) and render directly to the framebuffer.  Without 
such bypassing, graphically intensive apps ran excrutiatingly slow.

Nevin


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