Re: patch -- (ABI-1-0-0-STABLE) XFT support

From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 15:37:46 EDT

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    At 09:29 PM 5/26/02 +0200, Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:
    >On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 21:09, Paul Rohr wrote:
    >This code will run slower in X servers without the render extension, but
    >even there you will get something as 22000 glyphs/sec (10 times more
    >with the render extension).
    >
    >> IIRC, we looked at using FreeType back in 1998, and at the time, drawing
    >> performance was unacceptably poor. I had assumed that problem had gone
    away
    >> after four years of optimization. Has it?
    >
    >It seems so. If you feel better, my girlfriend is absolutely not
    >capable to find any difference in speed... it's only that I know where
    >to look :) (ie, copy & paste of big chucks of text).

    Phew. Thanks for the reassurance. The world makes sense again.

    Paul



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