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Re: GDI+ Font Rendering

by Petr Kobalíček :: Rate this Message:

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Hi Pierre,

I think that DIBs have no hardware acceleration at all, so we can
compare software implementations ;-)

I think that blitjit will beat all of those ;-)

Cheers
- Petr

2009/3/15 Pierre Joye <pierre.php@...>:

> 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,
> --
> Pierre
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