Re: Scalability of CALayers

2012-10-27 Thread Richard Somers
On Oct 25, 2012, at 6:18 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > I'm wondering how scalable the Core Animation layer model is. Look at the WWDC 2006 video around the 0:50 mark. Scott Forstall introduces Core Animation and discusses its scalability. He show a demo of the iTunes album screen saver app written t

Scalability of CALayers

2012-10-25 Thread Graham Cox
I'm wondering how scalable the Core Animation layer model is. When a region of a layer-backed view is updated, does the CA system have a way to quickly identify layers for update, e.g. some sort of spatial hash, or does it simply traverse the whole tree looking for intersections? If the latter