[Cuis-dev] VectorEngine performance

[Juan Vuletich]

On 6/19/2020 4:23 AM, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> Ha Ha! It makes me smile a lot your forgot to tell us.
>
> I update the image, load my code, play a bit resizing the circular 
> toolbar (it requires the redrawing of the chevron, to be then cached 
> in form). Then what? It is faster! What is happening?
>
> I have no idea about the implication of dropping OpenCL.
>
> I try to imagine a dynabook with two A4 screens, where the information 
> is layout in a vectorial canvas for each screen whose contents are 
> texts flowing around rectangular like Morphs with dynamic content and 
> an aditionnal layer of vectorial hand writtings. In that scenario, can 
> the start up cost of OpenCL  be mitigated?
>
> Hilaire
>
>

I don't think so, but nothing needs to be written in stone. Most likely, 
the first high performance implementation will be a vm plugin in c. But 
it is not a lot of code. It can be rewritten in whatever makes sense at 
the time.

> Le 16/06/2020 à 16:50, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev a écrit :
>> Yes. It seems I forgot to tell, I'm sorry for that.
> -- 
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