> Do we use Pisces for non-AA? Pisces should clock in slower for AA than > non-AA, but I think we use one of the other pipes (not Ductus) for > non-AA and maybe it just isn't as good as Pisces?
We definitely use it for non-AA. I traced it. Denis. ----- "Jim Graham" <james.gra...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 9/2/2010 2:43 PM, Denis Lila wrote: > > Actually, I had a question about the test I wrote which takes 20 > seconds. When > > I turned antialiasing on, the test dropped from 20 seconds to 2.5. > This is very > > puzzling, since antialiasing is a generalization of non-antialiased > rendering > > (a generalization where we pretend there are 64 times more pixels > than there > > actually are). Of course, the paths followed after pisces for AA and > non-AA are > > completely different, but whatever came after pisces in the non-AA > case would > > have the same input as Renderer has in the AA case (input gotten > from Stroker). > > Can you take a guess as to what was causing such a large > difference? > > > I think Pisces was integrated only as a Ductus replacement which means > > it was used only for AA, but check if I'm mistaken... > > ...jim
