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Coalesced Updates?

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Subject: Coalesced Updates?
From: Michael Diehr <md03 at xochi dot com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:28:52 -0800
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Interesting tech note about how 10.4 handles screen refreshes differently. One wonders, how does REALbasic handle this?

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2133.html

"Mac OS X 10.4 introduces a new behavior of coalescing updates that enables Quartz to more efficiently update the frame buffer during each display refresh. In addition to increasing system efficiency, Coalescing updates improved visual consistency and eliminates "tearing" during scrolling and animation. To coalesce updates, the Quartz window server composites all window buffers into a single offscreen frame buffer before flushing it to the screen. When your application issues a flush command, the system doesn't actually flush that content until the next available display refresh. This allows all updates for multiple applications to happen at the same time. Window server operations (window resize or move, for example) are handled in the same manner—coalesced into a system-wide screen update."_______________________________________________
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