Re: Render glyphs in foreground?

On 04/03/2004, at 8:28 AM, 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).

That's impressive.

> Maybe we should do away with background glyph rendering and just do it 
> all in the foreground?

This is tempting, especially from the perspective of simplified 
templates, but it could cause problems.

I don't think it should be possible to create a template that 
effectively jams Ibex, and a template requesting many thousands of 
symbols from the unicode character space (or even the latin characters 
of a 100 or so fonts) would definitely do it if rendering was a 
foreground process.

-- d