Minutes of ESC call

[Noel Grandin]

On 2014-02-21 16:21, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> Jan Holesovsky wrote:
>> * Problems in image scaling code (Markus)
>>      + can we use openmp there?  anybody against?
>>      + gcc and visual studio both support that [Markus]
>>      + easy to use [Markus]
>>
> 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.
>


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

I would have thought they'd have pretty efficient versions of stuff like that by now.

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