Re: Floating point in pango

[Matthew Allum <mallum o-hand com>]

Hi;

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 12:04 +0300, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > 
> > True.  That's because cairo's public API uses floating point.  Do you
> > have any idea how Pango can do better here?
> 
> No :(
> 

Neither that nice but;

 - Have cairo expose a new alternate fixed point API that pango-cairo 
   makes use of ( openGL API does a similar thing ). Internally cairo 
   is mostly fixed point I believe.

 - Wait a few years for FPU's to become commonplace on ARM hardware :(

Many thanks;

  -- Matthew