On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Jon Harrop wrote: > On Wednesday 05 November 2008 15:20:26 Kuba Ober wrote: [snip] > > So, please understand that I'm not oblivious to benefits of thinking in > > higher levels of abstraction, but I'm also practical and know that Qt > > provides me with a whole big lot of cross-platform functionality that > > simply doesn't exist anywhere else in one coherent platform. > > Maybe if I release Smoke as open source software OCaml will become usable > for advanced GUI programming. If I don't, I think OCaml is dead in the > water in this respect.
Would it be useful, then, to have Smoke have a built-in renderer for embedded/non-accelerated platforms? It should still be faster than Mesa, since you can work with higher-level objects that can perhaps be drawn faster with object-specific rendering functions, instead of having to tesselate everything and then just work on triangles? I'm pretty sure that such built-in rendering would perform better and have smaller footprint for non-accelerated platforms than going through the whole OpenGL stack. What do you think? Then, there's still a whole lot of work in getting OCaml interoperate with native platform (think OLE, browser plugins, yada yada). Kuba _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
