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Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: fun with assembler code
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] ttfautohint: fun with assembler code |
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Tue, 10 May 2011 06:15:39 +0200 (CEST) |
> Just for the fun of it, I installed the xgridfit. Learnt and wrote a
> xgridfit version of the compute_stem_width() function. Porting the
> pseudo code was fairly straight forward. Xgridfit has quite a rich
> set of APIs. But the generated code is much longer than your hand
> craft version, 400+ lines vs 150 lines. A lot of stack management
> codes.
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> Xgridfit lost in code size...
:-) Thanks for testing. However, it is an excellent opportunity to
get a feeling of bytecode instructions if you code manually.
Werner