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

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Tue Aug 5 19:06:50 UTC 2003


On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 11:11  AM, Nevin Pratt wrote:
> 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

Yes but as mentioned there doesn't seem to be a way to get around all  
the Quartz stuff. Perhaps open/gl? but
an easy solution I've not yet discovered, open of course to  
suggestions...
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