Re: Floating point in pango

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 14:13 +0100, Matthew Allum wrote:
> 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 :(

OR, write a fixed-point implementation for floating point functions in
gcc/glibc.

> Many thanks;
> 
>   -- Matthew
> 
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