Re: Switching to ANGLE ?

2022-11-04 Thread Kevin Rushforth
We briefly considered this several years ago. We are unlikely to switch Prism rendering to Angle. Having a dependency on another large third-party library in our core renderer is not a direction we plan to go. As a note, WebGL wouldn't fall out for free from this anyway, since the way WebKit's

Re: Switching to ANGLE ?

2022-11-04 Thread Anirvan Sarkar
There is an ANGLE RFE [1]. It is closed as a duplicate of an older WebGL RFE [2]. [1] : https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8134841 [2] : https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8091035 On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 at 7:56 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > On a topic unrelated to Conveyor, I saw the JavaFX roadmap

Switching to ANGLE ?

2022-11-02 Thread Mike Hearn
On a topic unrelated to Conveyor, I saw the JavaFX roadmap document presented at JavaOne and the mention of a Metal pipeline. It prompted a thought I've never got around to exploring - does it make sense to switch JavaFX to using Google's ANGLE library i.e. to decommission all but the GL backend