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Technical Q&As: Performance
The performance of Cocoa applications can be measured, evaluated, and optimized using Apple's developer tools, technologies, and programming interfaces. Developers can fine-tune their applications for high performance using tools such as the Shark code-profiling application, features such as multiprocessing, and APIs such as the one for the vDSP library.

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Quartz 2D Thread Safety (HTML) ()
QA1238: Explains the thread-safety issues for the Quartz 2D API.
2003-02-25
How do I tell if a particular display is being hardware accelerated by Quartz Extreme? (HTML) ()
QA1218: Describes how to use CGDisplayUsesOpenGLAcceleration to see if a display is accelerated or not.
2002-12-04
Disabling a Processor on a Multiprocessor System (HTML) ()
QA1141: Describes how to disable a processor on a multiprocessor system for testing purposes.
2002-05-22
OTScheduleDeferredTask When Task Running (HTML) ()
NW52: Describes what happens when you use OTScheduleDefferedTask to schedule a task that is running.
1997-10-13
Changing the TCP Window Size (HTML)
NW47: Describes how to change the TCP window size in Open Transport.
1997-03-14