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What about skia?

• Jasper_ 6y ago
  Skia renders paths on the CPU. There was a prototype of a GPU based approach called skia-compute but it was removed a few years ago. I believe some parts of skia can use SDFs for font rendering, but that's only really accurate at small sizes.
  • raphlinus 6y ago
    The skia-compute project is now Spinel, and is under Fuchsia. It is very interesting, perhaps the fastest way to render vector paths on the GPU, but the code is almost completely inscrutable, and it has lots of tuning parameters for specific GPU hardware, so porting is a challenge. Skia has a requirement that rendering of paths cannot suffer from conflation artifacts (though compositing different paths can), as they don't want to regress on any existing web (SVG, canvas) content. That's made it difficult to move away from their existing software renderer which is highly optimized and deals with this well. Needless to say, I consider that an interesting challenge.
    • The_rationalist 6y ago
      Wow the codebase looks quite small for such ambitions!