On 17 April 2013 11:23, kilon <theki...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Estaban correct me if I am wrong but AFAIK MACOS GUI is based on opengl and > it is hardware accelerated. I hear the same applied for Linux GUIs too in > large. > Not at all. It is same story as with Athens: - GUI uses Cocoa framework. Sure you can use OpenGL or Quartz for rendering, but in most cases you just have a canvas where you draw to using common protocol. So, you don't need to think whether it is opengl-based or quartz or cairo.
> Anyway, my only objection is the fact that we will have twice the code to > maintain and more to worry about. As I said I am on macos , I am a mac > developer (not pro) still ObjC never made sense for me since it locks me > down to a specific platform. It does however make sense to have platform > specific code for providing better and smoother support for that platform. > So its definetly good to have and thank you for your efforts. > Right. The objective for ObjC bridge is smoother integration with mac platform. It has little to do with Athens but more about communicating with underlying platform using language it understands. > Speedwise , I know the subject on optimisation is a huge one and there > thousands of ways to speed up specific code. Its a more a practical one, > since not to many people work on athens we need to choose one way that makes > life easier for everyone and especially people who develop Athens. > > Part of the sucess of Cairo is that is an easy to understand little library > that is very well documented. I would like to see Athens maintain that. > We will get there. :) > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Fwd-do-you-know-what-is-this-tp4681962p4682078.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
