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SDL2 has been built as a fast whole/partial screen refreshing platform for textures/images, no wonder if it's that slow mimicking XFT/Cairo's job on fonts/text.

by anthk 2y ago

SDL2 has been built as a fast whole/partial screen refreshing platform for textures/images, no wonder if it's that slow mimicking XFT/Cairo's job on fonts/text. Just look at the Emacs editor for Common Lisp vs the SDL build of Lem.

kragen 2y ago
but the varvara interface doesn't really provide a way for left to use xft or cairo or even partial screen refreshes i think
- anthk 2y ago
  I mean, SDL2 was built for multimedia, such as games, videos and music. There's SDL2_TTF but useless for Varvara/UXN as it's just a bitmapped array.