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Re: Interested in porting the font-rs rasterizer to FreeType
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Alexei Podtelezhnikov |
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Re: Interested in porting the font-rs rasterizer to FreeType |
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Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:59:15 -0500 |
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 9:50 AM Tatsuyuki Ishi <ishitatsuyuki@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been tinkering with vector rasterization recently and I think
> I've learned enough to do the font-rs porting task from the GSoC ideas
> page. Just to be clear, I'll be doing this as my free-time
> contribution, not as a part of GSoC.
Just to completely throw you off course, there is this loop
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/src/smooth/ftgrays.c#n1700
i.e. the larger glyphs are rendered band after band. Should we make it
parallel, those SIMD based advantages might not be so obvious.