Making Faster Mountain Lion's Retina DIsplay Performance

Hello..
I just hope to discuss Retina Display and rendering it's font, photo and display perfomance.
My two main issue is Antialiasing and Interpolation.
1. Antialiasing (AA) :
Now we can contact really high dpi display pannel. though, not close as print yet, i think it's time to think about antialiasing fonts.should we need AA more? in my guess AA should be have option to on & off now. and this could be increase perfomance and let GPU works less. instead of, font should be twice(at least) big than now in general environment. thanks to retina, we can get enough neat outline with antialiasing off.
2. Interpolation :
Interpolation is for graphic image to prevent mosaic problem when reduce or magnify. this should be essential in many case. but in Retina, this could be blur image. because in Retina mode, every image will enlarged with interpolation. so i hope there was option for turn  off this interpolation working in "half sized resolution mode". for example, in retina MBP, 2880 X 1800 is maximum resolution. but when set monitor resolution as half(1440X800), still image looks blur. because this image are interpolated even twice reduced. most images are basically have anti aliasing. so retina should not interporlate image at least they reduced in half.
i wonder someone can make this utility.
please let me know your think.
thanks

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