Archive for July, 2009

Quickly speed up Silverlight 3 graphics with the GPU enhancements

July 12, 2009

My last two posts have me drawing over 2,000 graphics objects onto the Virtual Earth Silverlight control. (Each pushpin represents an airport)

One side effect of managing all these objects on screen was high CPU usage:

So this application is pushing my Quad Core machine pretty hard. ( On my dual core laptop, the utilization is about [...]