Minutes of ESC call

[Tomaž Vajngerl]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Thorsten Behrens
<thb at documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> Another piece to look at are intel's TBB, which in my mind are _much_
> more idiomatic for c++ code. I'm always reminded of fortran when I see
> openmp code. ;)
>
> For vcl/source/gdi/* - that is clearly rife of inefficiencies & funny
> algorithms. A plan back in the day was to replace code there with
> calls to basebmp stuff one by one, though somehow I never got to
> it. But it would be nice to have _one_ place for filtering & image
> scaling, instead of three in vcl, one in each application, and one in
> basebmp.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Thorsten

Actually, I think we need SIMD implementations of image scalers if we
really want speed. We already have pixman (needed by cairo) which has
SIMD optimized image scalers available (and with latest versions also
high quality SIMD image scalers) - somebody just needs to integrate
it.

Regards, Tomaž