new release?

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

Hi Werner,

You used to release a new version around this time of year. What are
your plans this time around? Are you waiting for some official specs
for COLRv1?

I am happy with the round of QALLOC/QNEW clean-ups, which did not
produce many fuzzing problems. And the rendering optimizations add up
to 20%.

I am a bit concerned with 16-bit SDF. It comes in *whatever* platform
endianness. It is probably an overkill and 8-bits would work just fine
because the distance does not have to be expressed in "pixels". For
example, it can be scaled to signed [-128,127] with 0 threshold, or
unsigned [0,255] with an arbitrary threshold. We did not have a good
discussion on this.

Best,
Alexei