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["Marco Serantoni" <marco.serantoni@...>]

--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...> wrote:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=651005
> is an interesting project.
> Also, I read somewhere that on the MAC, wxGraphicsContext was behind the 
> actual implementation of wxDC. If true, then on the Mac there would be 
> a performance increase by going to wxGraphicsContext, because we would 
> be removing a layer.
> Did not have time to review the Mac wx source.

Dick indeed, wxGraphicsContext is almost near the way CORE_GRAPHICS engine works and is "wrapped" in wxDC.

I've to say that graphics is enough "fast" for me but anyway in those days i've planned to do a bit of profiling on the zooming/refreshing functions.

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Marco