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Re: Motif support


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: Motif support
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 12:43:50 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.60 (gnu/linux)

Akira Kyle <akira@akirakyle.com> writes:

> I know emacs supports these, my point was more about things that
> didn't exist when the current architecture of the display engine was
> conceived and thus assumptions that were made about hardware for the
> sake of performance do not necessarily now hold with newer hardware
> (for example subpixel font rendering on hidpi).

Subpixel font rendering is not the job of Emacs, or redisplay, it's the
job of the individual terminals and font drivers.  The Cairo and macOS
drivers do a pretty good job at that at present.

> Sure, but the question isn't a binary one (hardware accelerated vs
> not) but how well is the available hardware being utilized which is a
> much more difficult question to answer.

It's utilized very well, in the case of XRender and Glamor.


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