Re: gallium surface still maintained ?
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.cairo |
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| Organization | Geek Central |
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On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 11:51:57 +0200, Guillermo Rodriguez wrote: > 2016-08-03 11:33 GMT+02:00 Lawrence D'Oliveiro > <[email protected]>: > >> For comparison, Macintosh Color QuickDraw was capable of drawing >> full-colour, full-screen graphics at interactive speeds on a 25MHz >> Motorola 68040 processor in 1993--within the above limitations. > > So did the Commodore Amiga on a 7MHz Motorola 68000 CPU at 1987 :) No it didn’t. The best it could manage was “HAM”, which was sort-of-12-bits-per-pixel, with limitations. When I said “full-colour”, I meant “24 bits per pixel”. > Which suggests that there should be no need to go for a "less resource > intensive" solution with today's CPUs. QuickDraw was much less resource-intensive than Cairo. Also much less sophisticated. Which is why I brought it up. -- cairo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo