Re: NSView -drawRect optimization

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Tue Feb 12 23:17:05 2008

Paul Bruneau wrote:
> If anyone likes looking at newbie code for stupid things, now is your
> chance. I'll happily take any tips, comments, or even derision. My
> biggest fear is to hear "There's nothing you can do about it--stuff
> takes time" to which I would respond, "Then how does Blizzard do it!?
> I know they are drawing more than 226 rectangles!"

At Blizzard, we render graphics with OpenGL, which is going to be a lot
faster than anything you can do on the CPU :)
I haven't looked at your code, but have you experimented with
CoreAnimation at all? This would let you leverage the GPU for your
drawing as well, which might help.