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LGM: Unusual typography

LGM: Unusual typography

Posted May 24, 2012 22:10 UTC (Thu) by behdad (subscriber, #18708)
In reply to: LGM: Unusual typography by kRogue
Parent article: LGM: Unusual typography

Thanks kRogue for the detailed feedback!

Yes, GLyphy as it is is very heavy on the GPU. I'm sure embedded devices would struggle, but seems like on desktop it's not far from usable. I mean, it gives me a decent framerate on my 2-year old Thinkpad with intel graphics and Linux mesa driver...

That said, after discussions at LGM, I have at least three pages full of ideas for optimizing it. It's just a matter of time.

Also, we already do try to share arcs among cells. Current memory usage is about 2k per glyph for a sans serif font. I think we can get that down to about 1k.

At any rate, feel free to join the Google Group and continue discussion there.


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