On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodt...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Adam, Behdad, thank you...
>
> > Chromium, on many configurations, does do subpixel positioning.
>
> Indeed I now see beautiful variations in LCD glyph images in the bug
> report. You would not want to ruin that with hinting. Is this the
> "bug"? Do not do hinting unless tricky.
>
> > I think Skia does, by default, a 4x1 subpixel grid.
>
> ... which is almost the same as 3x1, which you would get for free from
> LCD rendering with 3 channels shifted by 1/3.. 4x1 is such a minor
> gain for a huge cache waste. Just a suggestion.
>

May I ruin your suggestion by suggesting that LCD images are stored four
bytes a pixel? ;)

-- 
behdad
http://behdad.org/
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