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What was the reason for adding font handling of all things in the Kernel? I know that the low-level graphics primitives were added to the Kernel round NT4 (appa
by lokedhs 10y ago
What was the reason for adding font handling of all things in the Kernel? I know that the low-level graphics primitives were added to the Kernel round NT4 (apparently for performance reasons), but why is the font processing there too?
- slededit 10y agoText rendering is the slowest graphics operation of most desktop applications. If you are willing to argue BitBlt should be put in the kernel you'd have to put text rendering there by default.