At 09:29 PM 5/26/02 +0200, Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela wrote: >On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 21:09, Paul Rohr wrote: >This code will run slower in X servers without the render extension, but >even there you will get something as 22000 glyphs/sec (10 times more >with the render extension). > >> IIRC, we looked at using FreeType back in 1998, and at the time, drawing >> performance was unacceptably poor. I had assumed that problem had gone away >> after four years of optimization. Has it? > >It seems so. If you feel better, my girlfriend is absolutely not >capable to find any difference in speed... it's only that I know where >to look :) (ie, copy & paste of big chucks of text).
Phew. Thanks for the reassurance. The world makes sense again. Paul
