Re: what patches are you interested in?

At 12:25 PM 2/5/2004, Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
>Use the preprocessor (#define) or compiler (typedef) to make it possible to
>switch the C type used for floating point variables. I'm thinking about a
>patch that would allow either double or float.

         What do you see as the advantage for this - or just portability?


>Add Drawxx() functions that render immediately without going thru the mvg
>string.

         I had a LOT of discussions with Cristy back in the IM days about 
doing this, when I was using IM to render SVG & PDF documents, and his 
argument at the time was that it would add another set of APIs that only a 
limited set of people would use.   Also, at that time, the overhead of the 
strings was actually less in some cases than the rendering of AA'd vector 
objects...

         There is also the issue about management of graphics states and 
clipping paths which is currently handled by the "wrappers" around the core 
drawing ops.

         But I'm 110% in favor of this!


Leonard 



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