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Re:MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis by lloeki on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @01:23PM (#4101571)
> I don't know if this is the case, exactly, with Chrome

As part of its security model, Chrome does something akin to rendering everything offscreen in an unprivileged process then passing that to the user-facing process.

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Re:MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis by jonhendry on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @01:35PM (#4101653)
Yeah, that sounds like it would do it. On the bright side, maybe they just have to double their offscreen buffer size.
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Re:MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis by rbanffy on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @05:35PM (#4103028)
Actually, since it's 2D, they have to quadruple it.
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