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carlosjobimtoday at 2:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

If think that the MacOS GUI is actually entirely rendered as a series of PDFs, if I have understood things correctly.


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jonhohletoday at 2:20 PM

That’s how it originally worked, but Apple has moved away from PDF to other native GPU frameworks for drawing. Now window content is stored as bitmaps instead of redrawing vector instructions.

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mpweihertoday at 3:43 PM

You have understood things incorrectly.