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Authored by: autarkeia on May 04, '05 03:40:57PM
Windows doesn't use DirectX for its main GUI-drawing functions (yet, anyway... Longhorn will be a very different story). It uses GDI. There's a very good review of Longhorn's graphics architecture at Extremetech. But yes, it's safe to assume that GDI is probably faster than Quartz, but this is rather like saying that QuickDraw under OS9 is faster as well. They are very different beasts.

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