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Technical Q&As: Graphics & Imaging
Mac OS X application developers can measure, evaluate, and optimize graphics performance with tools such as Quartz Debug and OpenGL Profiler, technology features such as multiprocessing, and APIs such as the vImage framework.

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NSTimers and Rendering Loops (HTML)
QA1385: Using Cocoa timers (NSTimer) to drive a rendering loop
2004-10-04
Why am I drawing directly to the screen? (HTML)
QA1015: Explains why drawing to a window's backbuffer can affect the upper left corner of the screen instead.
2004-02-19
Is ColorSync thread safe? (HTML) ()
QA1261: Discusses ColorSync thread-safety issues.
2003-04-17
Quartz 2D Thread Safety (HTML) ()
QA1238: Explains the thread-safety issues for the Quartz 2D API.
2003-02-25
Disabling a Processor on a Multiprocessor System (HTML) ()
QA1141: Describes how to disable a processor on a multiprocessor system for testing purposes.
2002-05-22
Setting the preferred CMM programatically? (HTML)
QA1086: Uses the NCMConcatProfileSet structure to specify the CMM to be used to make the CMWorldRef with the NCWConcatColorWorld function.
2001-10-24