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It would be interesting to connect Pathfinder to Alacritty. They accelerate two different things: Pathfinder accelerates the glyph rasterization (converting the
by pcwalton 10y ago
It would be interesting to connect Pathfinder to Alacritty. They accelerate two different things: Pathfinder accelerates the glyph rasterization (converting the vector outlines to bitmaps), while Alacritty accelerates the glyph compositing (blitting the bitmaps onto the screen).
- kevindqc 10y agoWould it change much? I imagine Alacritty doesn't rasterize the same glyphs over and over if they repeat and keeps some kind of Atlas, so using Pathfinder would just give a boost when creating that Atlas, which in the grand scheme of thing wouldn't change much?
- moosingin3space 10y agoI'd expect the most visible improvements would be on screens full of CJK characters, based on what the original font-rs announcement's graphs showed.
- pcwalton 10y agoYeah, if you aren't (a) using CJK text or similar or (b) zooming your terminal I don't expect it to change a lot.