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Jaguar introduced QuartzExtreme, which used your 3D graphics card for window compositing and rendering. Doing this enabled things like alpha translucency and drop shadows (both of which Mac OS X makes extensive use of) to be used "for free". This provided a much needed speedup for [GUI] operations.
! 10.3
-Panther, enhanced QuartzExtreme as well as providing a number of other speedups, finally making simple tasks like scrolling and using pull down menus bearable. Panther also greatly improved compatibility with Windows file sharing (using Samba 3.) and had several significant enhancements to the [BSD] and [GNU] command line tools included. [
Xcode]
debuted with the release of Panther, obsoleting the aging ~ProjectBuilder and adding several nice new features to the free [GCC]-orienteded development environment included with the OS.
+Panther, enhanced QuartzExtreme as well as providing a number of other speedups, finally making simple tasks like scrolling and using pull down menus bearable. Panther also greatly improved compatibility with Windows file sharing (using Samba 3.) and had several significant enhancements to the [BSD] and [GNU] command line tools included. Xcode debuted with the release of Panther, obsoleting the aging ~ProjectBuilder and adding several nice new features to the free [GCC]-orienteded development environment included with the OS.
! 10.4
Tiger continues to enhance performance, although many of the enhancements are not available yet. Quartz2DExtreme was to debut with Tiger, but ships disabled on all Macs. It takes acceleration on the graphics card one step further by using programmable shaders to render [GUI] elements. Rumour has it it will be enabled in a future Tiger point release.
