Re: [OpenJDK Rasterizer] Rasterizer replacement proposal

2007-06-18 Thread Jim Graham
True. However, the clipping can simply be ignored or ripped out of you don't need this. Should make the code simpler and faster. It won't be needed to satisfy the needs of the RenderingEngine plugin API that I sent out a few days ago. Longer term we may want to stick with Region clipping as w

Re: [OpenJDK Rasterizer] Rasterizer replacement proposal

2007-06-18 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 21:26 +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: > Hi Mark, > > > >I don't think it's Sun only policy, pretty much any company has it. > > >It is easy to become tainted by looking at other's people code. > > >The fact that the code is open-source doesn't matter, since > > >it

Re: [OpenJDK Rasterizer] Rasterizer replacement proposal

2007-06-18 Thread Roman Kennke
Hi Jim, > - It's also very basic in its mathematical techniques, though. The math > to trace the slope of a line is inefficient and inaccurate and it > flattens everything before tracing. There is a lot of room for > improvement here. Indeed, that's true. > - It uses a push technology - yo