Looking at platforms objectively [X4U]

Eddie Hargreaves meged at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 3 13:12:18 PDT 2005


On 9/3/05 11:38 AM, Eugene <list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net> wrote:

> Quartz 2D is the API used by an application to draw its contents
> to a window, using the CPU to do the commands.  Quartz 2D Extreme
> sends these drawing commands to the GPU, letting the video card do
> what it does best and off-loading the CPU to do other tasks.  So in
> general, "... Extreme" means that the graphics stuff (specifically,
> OpenGL commands) been moved from the slower, general-purpose CPU to
> the faster, special-purpose GPU.  Of course, all this works only on
> supported video cards.

Actually, Quartz 2D Extreme is not enabled on any Macs yet.
See http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005050121260474 for more
information on how to enable it. I have not personally done this, so it is
not a recommendation, just an FYI.




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