Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 7/4/00 4:59 PM:
>QT gets penalized for two reasons: 1) it bypasses the OS whenever it
>can (which may explain why forcing it to use GDI calls makes it work
>better on NT because this ties it closer to the OS) and 2) it starts
>its own thread that does stuff like polling the main event queue
>instead of doing it the nice way by just waiting for an event. To
>some extent both of these practices are justified for a time-critical
>library like QT. But Apple's got some tuning to do to make it work
>better on NT (and probably on UNIX, at least in its Mac OS X guise)
>where the rules are different than on single-user systems like MacOS
>and Windows 95/98.
One of the Apple guys gave a talk about the merging of NeXTStep and MacOS
to create OS X. An article about the talk, at:
http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200006/mac_usenix2k&pa
ge=5
says that, "The QuickTime guys at Apple werenąt very happy when they lost
the ability to claim nearly all of the CPU. :>"
:-)
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