Re: Variable pitch text filling

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> If that's the case, perhaps we could stop doing that if we're doing a
>> gridded display?
>
> That'd be much slower, I guess?  For each such separate glyph we need
> first clear the background with the color of the face, then draw the
> glyph itself.  Right now, we clear the background for all of the
> glyphs in one GUI call, then write all of the glyphs in a single call
> to the font driver.

Perhaps we could try to benchmark -- it might be acceptable (and we
wouldn't be doing this in all buffers normally).  But I don't know how
to benchmark this.

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