[SDL] Mac OS X woes

[Sam Lantinga]

> --- Darrell Walisser <walisser at mac.com> wrote:
> > Mac OS X doesn't support offscreen hardware surfaces, except in
> > OpenGL. So most of that 8MB is gone to waste.

> That's interesting.  Does this mean, then, that under Mac OS X/SDL it's
> better to have all software surfaces at the moment, given that the
> software->hardware acceleration isn't in yet?  What's the general
> consensus among developers who've released completed projects?

I've used many of the SDL test programs to check out various combinations
of hardware and software features.  I don't have a canonical benchmark 
program though... so much depends on the way you use the API and the
underlying drivers.  All the games that I used to push the hardware
with don't even make modern computers break a sweat. :)

See ya,
	-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment