MacVertigo Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 So, if they are saying that we are going to see the final product on June 11th, then why the hell haven't we seen any builds. The next build that comes out better have a ton of improvements! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47479-if-they-only-have-3-months/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerio Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Look at this Trac entry. Read in the green part: "We need to revisit this after Leopard ships". So, they can't change lauchd besides bugfixes... And this is probably because Leopard is near the RC and the trunk is already freezed. Maybe we'll see a build this week and maybe one final RC during May. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47479-if-they-only-have-3-months/#findComment-339877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellogoodbye Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 What builds? The only purpose of the betas that Apple sends out is for developers to support Leopard in their applications. All they need are the core foundations of Leopard, such as Core Animation, etc., and no "secret features". 3 months is plenty of time for Apple to finalize Leopard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47479-if-they-only-have-3-months/#findComment-340097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Most likely, we will be getting a new Leopard seed either on or about the 15th of this month. The point is that Apple has committed to an event at the National Association of Broadcasters Confrence this year. There, it is highly probable that they will be announcing the new Final Cut Studio with a probable release date with Leopard. FCS is certain to include CoreAnimation support to make their rendering faster. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47479-if-they-only-have-3-months/#findComment-340194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercow Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 FCS is certain to include CoreAnimation support to make their rendering faster. Huh? Could you elaborate how CoreAnimation, of all things, could increase render performance? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47479-if-they-only-have-3-months/#findComment-340410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 How about compositing multiple layers together in real time with full anti-aliasing and highspeed video conversion through writebacks from the graphics card memory and offscreen buffers? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47479-if-they-only-have-3-months/#findComment-340623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 would it make any difference with the GMA950? I'm not talking about running Quake 4 with all the graphics options on full or anything stupid - I mean normal day-to-day tasks as you just described Adrian. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47479-if-they-only-have-3-months/#findComment-340696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
track09 Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 How about compositing multiple layers together in real time with full anti-aliasing and highspeed video conversion through writebacks from the graphics card memory and offscreen buffers? You'd need a far superior layer than Core Animation for that, one with specifically crafted modules direct GPU specific execution. Otherwise, performance gains would be negligable. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47479-if-they-only-have-3-months/#findComment-340864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercow Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 You'd need a far superior layer than Core Animation for that, one with specifically crafted modules direct GPU specific execution. Otherwise, performance gains would be negligable. I agree. Core Animation has no functionality to render to a offline texture and even if it had that (internally), reading data back from the GPU is still a major bottleneck that would negate any performance gained. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47479-if-they-only-have-3-months/#findComment-341883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoodcc Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 well hopefully something happens the 15th.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47479-if-they-only-have-3-months/#findComment-342164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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