Hi Andrea,
I think the problem is that there really aren't a lot of people working
directly on the JDK any more with direct experience with rasterizers.
For my day to day responsibilities, I have been officially working on
JavaFX for a couple of years, but I am also the engineer with the most
knowledge about the rasterizer in the JDK, either the Open version or
the Oracle version. As such, I don't always pay attention to
discussions here which only occasionally bring up areas that I am
familiar with, but I've worked with Laurent in the past to provide
feedback on improving the rasterizer.
I've also wanted to drop the proprietary rasterizer in the JDK for a
long time, if we can get the OpenJDK rasterizer up to the same speed in
the same situations. I think Laurent was pretty much there which means
if we can get that work in then we might be able to delete one last
proprietary plug / difference between the two JDK versions.
Now that I'm aware of your efforts to continue that work, I'll keep an
eye out for this discussion more, but please feel free to ping me
directly if your questions aren't getting answered (note that addressing
me directly on the forum doesn't necessarily catch my attention due to
mail filtering unfortunately).
JDK 8 is currently only accepting work that solves critical blocking
bugs at this point, so any work submitted now would have to go into JDK
9. Getting it in to 9 early means lots of time to find bugs and have
more developers testing it by using it...
...jim
On 11/11/13 12:33 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Clemens Eisserer <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
One wish regarding pisces came into my mind:
Currently all AA tile generators feed 32x32 coverage tiles to the
pipelines.
While this might be a good idea for software-only pipelines due to
good cache locality, it is a huge issue for at least the xrender
pipeline.
Each tile has to be uploaded seperately, which causes context switches
and GPU stalls - and I can't make use of the shared memory image
extension which should be quite benefitial for larger coverage
uploads,
It would be great if this fixed size could be made more dynamically -
this is an area where I could contribute.
Hi Clemens,
personally I'm on board with this and other changes, yet, the complete
lack of any response from Oracle people is a cold shower.
As far as I know it's impossible to get the code in without any support
from them, so it seems like even if we started the work again, it would
be destined to failure.
I still haven't looked in detail, but another approach I was considering
is to develop a improved rasterizer completely outside OpenJDK,
and just add in OpenJDK the bits needed to allow it being plugged in
(e.g., for example, by dropping a JAR and leveraging the usual SPI
mechanism)
This I hope would break the tension between our desire to improve things
in software rendering, and the need to get Oracle support at every step
of the way
Cheers
Andrea
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