Re: Render fonts in HopenGL

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Tillmann Vogt
<[email protected]> wrote:
> It is maybe a little bit late to answer this mail, but at the end of
> february my library (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/SVGFonts) was in not
> such a good state to advertise it. But now it has reached version 1.0 and a
> lot of errors have been corrected! It has most of the capabilities of
> freetype2, ftgl and pango in only 44KB of code. This is about 100 times
> smaller than freetype2. It also has a very easy and powerful interface
> without forcing you into using the IO monad. It is a native Haskell library
> without the need to install any C-library, so it should work on every
> operating system.

Very interesting! =)

> It is also quite fast. The example that comes with the
> library generates 62 character textures in about a second.

So, is 62 chars/s fast?  And where is most of the time spent?

Cheers,

-- 
Felipe.