[Pixman] [PATCH] Don't discriminate PAD and REFLECT repeat in standard fast paths

[Bill Spitzak]

What I do in OpenGL is draw a rectangle (well two triangles) textured 
with the image with PAD repeat. Outside the rectangle is 0,0,0,0. This 
produces the sharp edge I wanted and allows full acceleration to be 
used. Because OpenGL and DirectX assume that such sharp edges are how 
images will be drawn with translations, they obviously made this the 
accelerated path.

Even if you don't want to use geometry, you could also intersect the 
clip with a quad (using the current clip implementation) and then draw 
all images with PAD.

The problem is that you have to get rid of the current, and useless, 
definition of NONE. It must be changed to make a "sharp" edge. This will 
not change the output when the image scale is 1 or less, and I believe 
the change when the image scale is > 1 will produce the results desired 
by most users (ie they expect that drawing a 10x10 image will cover the 
same pixels as a 10x10 rectangle).

Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> This is in fact what users expect, and also what other graphics
>> libraries are doing (which explains why the hardware is supporting PAD
>> directly).
> 
> The reason Render's NONE is difficult to accelerate in hardware is
> that for formats without alpha (such as x8r8g8b8), Render wants the
> border to be (0, 0, 0, 0), whereas GL will give you (0xFF, 0, 0, 0).
> 
> I thought I heard at one point that Direct3D can do (0, 0, 0, 0), but
> maybe not.
> 
> 
> Soren
>