Re: Apple: OpenGL to speed up Quartz Engine in next MacOS-X release

[Saibot]

Hello,

Personally, and although I still haven't contributed to the GnuStep
implementation (hey, I can have an opinion all the same), I like the OGL
route, mainly because it is OS agnostic thus garanteeing identical look and
performance (as long as drivers perform equaly) on all OSes that support
OGL. That and the fact that it means only one backend to maintain without
having to care much about the platform (aside from initial GL context
creation).
While it is true that OGL is not designed primarily for 2D, I think it would
perform very well (from my own experience using OGL for 2D).
Did anyone here do performance benchmarks?

Stephan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frédéric" <frederic.chauvin@noos.fr>
To: <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:51 AM
Subject: Apple: OpenGL to speed up Quartz Engine in next MacOS-X release


>
> Hi!
>
> A few month ago, we had a discussion about GNUstep backend implementation
and
> about the opportunity to use or not OpenGL as the low level rendering
engine.
> Apple has recently anounced that the next MacOSX release (code named
Jaguar)
> will be using intensively OpenGL for Quartz rendering (including  2D
graphics
> like "Genius effect" for the Desktop). See
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/ for details.
>
> Does this changes the GNUstep team position with respect to OpenGL
possible
> usage in GNUstep-gui backend?
>
> Best regards, Frédéric
>
>
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