On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: >> >>> A first step towards making this new renderer generally useful would >>> be to convert it or compile it (using the Crust compiler) to C. >> >> Is there a volunteer for this? Raph is quite busy, he told me... > > Conceptually, are we into parallelizing Freetype rendering engine? As > I alluded earlier this can be happily delegated to text layout > engines. Hence we used to care about thread safety in Freetype, while > the text layout engine is busy processing 8 letters at once. Raph uses > at least 8-core processor. I would be interested to see how his > renderer performs on a single core, without parallel tricks.
You are seriously misunderstanding what font-rs is doing. It's using SIMD instructions [0]. That's still one core. And, he's also showing 6x speedup without SIMD. Really, it's just plain honest tight piece of code. No magic involved. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD -- behdad http://behdad.org/rr _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
