> but for text glyph rendering the setup costs would be higher than letting the CPU do the job Depends on how the glyph rendering is done. Modern GPU glyph/vec

> but for text glyph rendering the setup costs would be higher than letting the CPU do the job Depends on how the glyph rendering is done. Modern GPU glyph/vector renderers like Pathfinder [1] or Slug [2] keep all the data on the GPU side (although I must admit that I haven't looked too deeply into their implementation details). [1] https://github.com/pcwalton/pathfinder https://github.com/pcwalton/pathfinder [2] https://sluglibrary.com/ https://sluglibrary.com/