Minutes of ESC call

[Thorsten Behrens]

Noel Grandin wrote:
> Wasn't there a plan at one point to make use of Cairo and/or Pixman
> for such things?
> 

Tomaž Vajngerl wrote:
> 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.
> 
Yeah. Though legacy vcl has some weird formats to support still. But
at least a number of critical paths could be re-routed to pixman (I
would do that in basebmp though - simply because the semantics are
much clearer defined in that code).

Something else to keep an eye on:

 https://github.com/MetaScale/nt2/tree/master/modules/boost/simd

Cheers,

-- Thorsten
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