[cairo] gallium surface still maintained ?

[Guillermo Rodriguez]

2016-08-05 4:06 GMT+02:00 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.nz>:

> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 11:05:30 +0200, Guillermo Rodriguez wrote:
>
> > My point was that if QuickDraw could do that on a 25MHz
> > Motorola 68040, then there's no reason why Cairo shouldn't work just
> > fine with today's embedded CPUs (especially if hardware floating
> > point is available), even if a GPU is not available/not usable.
>
> Given the experience that Enrico Weigelt is reporting, I’m not so sure.
>

>From my own experience, as I said in a previous mail:

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I am using Cairo on embedded targets without a usable GPU, but a reasonably
powerful CPU, and actually using many of the above features in my
application, and it works just fine.
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>
> > Sure, Cairo is more sophisticated, but the hardware is much more
> > powerful also.
>
> CPUs haven’t been getting more powerful for a long time. There’s a
> reason why we try to use GPUs and multithreading more and more nowadays.
>

Yes, the reason is that GPUs are convenient and powerful, specially for
certain types of applications. There is a long way from there to saying
that Cairo is "too ambitious and resource-intensive" if a GPU is not
available.

Guillermo
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