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Comment by watersb

4 hours ago

While the original OS X display model, Quartz, evolved from Display PDF via NextStep, I believe that it shifted back to pixel rasterization to offload more of the display stack onto the GPU.

Quartz Extreme?

John Siracusa, Ars Technica:

It's possible that existing consumer video cards could be coerced into doing efficient vector drawing in hardware. Apple tried to do just that in Tiger [note], but then had to back off at the last minute and disable the feature in the shipping version of the OS. It remains disabled to this day.

[note] https://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/14

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2006/04/3720/

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