[Qt-interest] Plans to improve the X11 backend?

Colin S. Miller no-spam-thank-you at csmiller.demon.co.uk
Thu May 13 23:22:52 CEST 2010


Clemens Eisserer wrote:
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>> Is there any reason why Trolltech haven't ported the Qt Renderer into X Renderer?
>>
>> I realise that they are under different licences, but Trolltech, as the copyright holder,
>> could re-release the code under the X/MIT licence that X uses.
> 
> Wouldn't do any good. XRender usually is accelerated in hardware, and
> if not there are already SSE2/arm-neon/ optimized software routines
> available.

I sit corrected.

Colin




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