Started? I have a fully working prototype! And it's not just "parallelised" but it greatly improves the efficiency and utilisation of both the CPU (and cores) and the GPU(s).
> On 10 Nov. 2016, at 18:35, Tobias Bley <b...@jpro.io> wrote: > > Do you have started any parallelization? > > > >> Am 10.11.2016 um 01:02 schrieb Felix Bembrick <felix.bembr...@gmail.com>: >> >> If you want to know how to parallelise the JavaFX pipeline (or how it's >> already been done with amazing results) then talk to me. >> >> If, of course, this email gets moderated... >> >>> On 10 Nov. 2016, at 10:57, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 10 Nov. 2016, at 10:27, Jim Graham <james.gra...@oracle.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 10/20/16 5:34 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote: >>>>>> For now the OpenPiscesRasterizer class uses a static Renderer (single >>>>>> instance) so it is single-threaded. >>>>>> >>>>>> In MarlinFX I could prepare the multi-threading support by using 1 >>>>>> RendererContext per thread (ThreadLocal) as I did in Marlin for java2d. >>>>>> >>>>>> However it seems a complex task to enable parallelization in the javafx >>>>>> pipeline but I could help there also... >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Enabling parallel rasterization seems like a good follow-on task, but is >>>>> out of scope for the short term given the >>>>> limited amount of time. Also, the only way that MarlinFX even has a >>>>> chance of getting approved for in JDK 9 is for the >>>>> default OpenPisces path to be unaltered. >>>> >>>> Also, such a parallelization of the javafx pipelines would be a fairly >>>> large task. >>>> >>>> I would think an effort to parallelize a single shape rasterization would >>>> be much simpler in scope. Still outside the current JDK 9 timeline, but >>>> definitely something that could help in future releases. I believe that >>>> once we put the edges into the internal structures we could parallelize >>>> the rasterization of individual scanlines and maybe break a tall shape up >>>> into N horizontal bands for N threads. Other thoughts would be a thread >>>> to generate the crossings and N threads to populate the alphas...? >>>> >>>> ...jim >
