<div dir="ltr">Talking about backends, I'm curious if anyone has contemplated a CUDA[*] backend for cario. Of course as it is a proprietary technology, it may not accepted into the official cairo disttribution.<br><br> Regards,<br>Dov<br><br>[*] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/23 Jonathan Morton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan.morton@movial.com">jonathan.morton@movial.com</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 10:30 +0200, Donn wrote:<br> > On Thursday, 23 July 2009 10:15:37 John C. Turnbull wrote:<br> > > For a Cairo n00b like me, could someone explain exactly what an OpenGL<br> > > back-end for Cairo is? Does it mean that all rendering is done using<br> > > OpenGL or is it that 2D graphics rendering is done using Cairo and all 3D<br> > > rendering done using OpenGL?<br> <br> > +1 for n00b confusion. We want to know! :D<br> <br> </div>It means that an existing OpenGL implementation is used to speed up<br> certain Cairo operations. If the GL is fast (as it usually is on recent<br> hardware), Cairo should be sped up by this.<br> <br> So 2D drawing is sent to Cairo, which uses OpenGL to help out. 3D<br> drawing is sent to OpenGL as usual.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> ------<br> From: Jonathan Morton<br> <a href="mailto:jonathan.morton@movial.com">jonathan.morton@movial.com</a><br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> cairo mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org">cairo@cairographics.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo" target="_blank">http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>