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On Linux at least, NVIDIA's drivers do support some acceleration for glyph rendering and other 2D operations through the X RENDER extension. It's not really goi
by crzwdjk 11y ago
On Linux at least, NVIDIA's drivers do support some acceleration for glyph rendering and other 2D operations through the X RENDER extension. It's not really going to help with SVG rendering, but it's great for boxes, triangles, and glyphs, as well as blitting and compositing which covers most of what browsers do with HTML and CSS
- pcwalton 11y agoXRENDER basically provides a subset of OpenGL which is insufficient to describe all of CSS and not particularly tailored to modern GPUs. The extra features it has, like trapezoids and blend modes, are easy to implement in regular old OpenGL. Additionally, it's effectively Linux-only and has spotty driver support. I don't see any reason to use it.
- slavik81 11y agoIt seems like a waste to tie new software to X when Wayland is just around the corner.