On 9/8/02 9:11 am, SVEN AERTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05-08-2002 17:40, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OS X uses significantly more memory than early Mac OS versions due to the >> new transparency effects in the windowing system. > > What are transparency effects ? Is it the graphic interface of OSX ... That > Aqua thing ? >
Yes. If you look at the top of a window, you can see through it a bit. That's the transparency effect Eric was talking about. To be able to display this, OS X has to join all the data from multiple windows together to be able to draw a pixel on the screen. To make this "fast" it keeps each window's display in memory. Everything you see on screen seems to support being transparent, so everything gets buffered in memory. This is one reason why OS X uses so much memory. Cheers, Chris -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
