Re: [ft-devel] "Inside the fastest font renderer in the world"

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

> Conceptually, are we into parallelizing Freetype rendering engine? As
> I alluded earlier this can be happily delegated to text layout
> engines.

Not sure where that sentiment is coming from. Raph's concept is about 
increasing the efficiency of the (parsing and) rendering process, how is 
that something outside the scope of FreeType? The article talks about 
using less space-efficient data structures so that SIMD instructions can 
burn through the data more quickly (and maybe in parallel because no 
single date depends on another) and with next to no branch 
misprediction. You can still parallelize stuff inside text layout 
engines for even more efficiency.