[cairo] New OpenGL backend merged

[Chris Wilson]

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 12:13 +0300, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 12:02 +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> For precisely that reason, I would advise forgetting about CUDA
> entirely.  OpenCL would be a much more suitable target platform, if this
> approach were to have merit.  OpenCL implementations are beginning to
> appear, so I expect they should be fairly widespread soon.

OpenGL looks to be quite a distant promise, given that we've yet to have
a good open GLSL compiler.

However, if someone does has the opportunity to develop an OpenCL
backend, then please do submit it.
-ickle