Quartz 2D Extreme optimization

micah · Post by **micah** » Sat May 07, 2005 4:20 am

I've been reading some articles (like this one) about Quartz 2D Extreme. I am just curious, is Adium optimized for this? Apple's quote of "What was once cheap may now be expensive and vice versa. Don't assume; measure!" just got my attention.
It's looking like Quartz 2D Extreme will be activated in 10.4.1.

FredAkbar · Post by **FredAkbar** » Sat May 07, 2005 5:00 am

Would Q2DE really make much of a difference in Adium? It isn't a very graphically oriented program; it just displays windows and renders HTML.

eevyl · Post by **eevyl** » Sat May 07, 2005 8:52 am

Adium does use Quartz rendering, so if in some future update of Tiger it activates Quartz 2D Extreme it will be automatically optimized for it without taking extra measures (for the graphic cards that can do it of course).

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Sat May 07, 2005 11:19 am

eevyl: some specific optimizations can be of value with Q2DX. Caching CG primitives, in particular. However, I don't think most of that applies to Adium (could be wrong).

eevyl · Post by **eevyl** » Sat May 07, 2005 12:49 pm

Again, I'm sure the superb devs that optimized the drawing code (specially for the Contact List) did a great job using Quartz technologies, and Quartz 2 Extreme just do some magic to properly coded Quartz routines.

For the message view, I have to assume that Apple did the job for WebKit, so we will gain speed there too.