Xgl server

David Reveman c99drn at cs.umu.se
Mon Dec 6 09:55:03 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 10:01 -0600, mcnichol at austin.ibm.com wrote:
> Just wondering if you have thought about how well this might scale.
> 
> What's going to happen in a GB18030 locale when you have may have
> to deal with 100,000+ characters?

I'd probably limit the size of the font texture/VBO to 65536 bytes or
something like that and just swap glyphs in and out when required.

> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> > From: David Reveman <c99drn at cs.umu.se>
> >
> > 
> > Yes, I'd like to stick all glyphs of an anti-aliased font into a single
> > texture for maximum speed. For bitmap fonts, I'd like try and convert
> > each glyph into a region and stick that geometry into a static VBO, one
> > VBO per font. 
> > 
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-David




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