[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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