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Re: GDI+ Font Rendering

by Pierre Joye :: Rate this Message:

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hi,

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Petr Kobalíček
<kobalicek.petr@...> wrote:

> 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).

As far as I remember, GDI+ is mostly software only, GDI has some
hardware acceleration (do not know which :).

Cheers,
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Pierre

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