Introduction to Drawing Performance Guidelines

Guidelines for improving the speed of drawing code.

Organization of This Document

This programming topic contains the following articles:

Cocoa Drawing Tips provides tips on how to improve the drawing code of Cocoa applications.

Measuring Drawing Performance shows you how to find poorly performing drawing code in your applications.

Flushing to the Window Buffer describes issues surrounding the coalesced updates feature.

Cocoa Live Window Resizing describes techniques for improving performance in live window resizing code for Cocoa applications.

Improving NSBezierPath Rendering Times describes ways to speed up drawing operations involving NSBezierPath objects.