Re: Speed of Quartz (was: optimizing compilers)
Re: Speed of Quartz (was: optimizing compilers)
- Subject: Re: Speed of Quartz (was: optimizing compilers)
- From: John Siracusa <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 18:47:23 -0500
On 2/5/02 6:23 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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<RANT> Indeed, keeping the Quartz APIs private is one of the biggest
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bone-headed moves yet; another prime example of the short-sighted,
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shoot-yourself-in-the-foot imbecilic behavior we have all come to love
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from a company that does not seem to care about increasing market share.
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I guess they're afraid that someone will use Quartz to come up with
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something that's actually valuable, thereby reducing the lickability of
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the gee-whiz "genie effect." <end rant>
Exercise: Some Quartz APIs are private...
a) ...because Apple wants to hurt developers.
b) ...in order to maintain an abstraction that will let the Quartz
implementation grow and adapt to changing hardware in the future.
c) ...because the current implementation is full of tape and bailing wire
and there is no "finished" API (or even design) suitable for public
consumption.
(s/Quartz/Your OS X Technology of Choice/)
-John
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