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Re: [Freetype] LoadGlyph Time
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James H. Cloos Jr. |
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Re: [Freetype] LoadGlyph Time |
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30 Apr 2002 00:33:10 -0400 |
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>>>>> "David" == David Turner <address@hidden> writes:
David> (you basically run a bytecode interpreter where opcodes can
David> perform complex 2d operations like dot products and vector
David> length measurements, all in fixed-point arithmetic, so don't
David> count on a FPU to speed everything up)
Some subset ot the SIMD instructions on modern µPs deal with integers
rather than floats. Would cpu-specific optimizations using such
instructions help speed things up?
How about a jit for the bytecodes?
Or do patent issues start popping up with such optimiaztions?
-JimC