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DrawSprocket provides transparent support for page-flipping on the Macs that support it, and falls back on more compatible methods for those that don't. When page-flipping is not available, DrawSprocket reverts to using CopyBits, which is much slower than page-flipping because QuickDraw must copy the entire contents of each frame of animation onto the screen. DrawSprocket also supports multi-buffering, with which the next frame of animation can be drawn even while the current frame is being copied to the screen. Multi-buffering can decrease the animation bottleneck that occurs when the processor overtakes the speed of the display device.

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