Re: GDI+ Font Rendering

> Hi,
>
> I readed some time document that shows that GDI+ text rendering is
> slower than pure GDI text rendering. I not remember article address,
> but I think that if you want really fast text renderer, use pure GDI
> or write you own text blitter using SSE2.
>
> GDI text rendering is also not too fast (it's probably implemented in
> pure C without MMX/SSE).
>
> Cheers
> - Petr
>
> 2009/3/14 George <georgios_vlachakis@...>:
>> Stephan Assmus wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>> I read somewhere that GDI+ uses hardware accelerated font rendering (or
>>>> something along those lines). If this is correct, is it also correct
>>>> that switching to GDI+ font rendering (only) would give me a performance
>>>> boost? I seem to have a bootleneck in my font rendering pipeline.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you already using a bitmap cache? If not, this may give you a substantial performance boost. Depends a bit on the fact whether you have transformed text or straight text only.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> -Stephan
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>> I am transforming text and I am using cache manager as the samples
>> suggest. However, I think the problem may be the fact that prior to
>> sending to the scanline I am doing a path_storage.concat(char_glyph) to
>> build up the text-string plus other things, so I will try to change my
>> logic. Changing it will also facilitate be being able to test GDI+
>> performance.
>>
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