Re: Render glyphs in foreground?

Brian Alliet wrote:

>I was just thinking, mips2java is getting pretty fast. I can render a glyph
>under hotspot in 3-5ms (slightly less under gcj). Maybe we should do away
>with background glyph rendering and just do it all in the foreground? It
>would make things a whole lot simpler (in the core and widgets).
>
>On slow machines we could end up blocking the foreground thread for a second
>or two. This is a one time thing though so it might not be a problem.
>
>-Brian
>  
>
I had the same thought while reworking Font.java, but I am afraid that 
it would cause rather jerky behaviour even on reasonably fast machines 
as various characters that hadn't been seen before need to get rendered.

-Tupshin