On 10/18/07, Phil Endecott <spam_from_boost_dev@chezphil.org> wrote:
No, I'm definitely not advocating that. I'm just pointing out that although GIL can integrate well with libraries like Anti-Grain and FreeType, it's less clear (to me) how it can integrate with something like DirectFB's hardware acceleration or CPU SIMD instructions. I would find this sort of integration very useful, and I'm curious to know if others have considered it: for example, I would be surprised if Adobe's products don't use MMX and hardware rectangle-copying.
Their latest version of PhotoShop was speculated to have optional use of the GPU for some of the effects and filters. Not sure if that was ever confirmed or not. As a side note, both AMD/ATI and NVIDIA have GPGPU SDKs now, so maybe if they are stable enough you could use one of those to optionally use the GPU. FreeType works great with OpenGL. There's a pretty simple library that encapsulates the boilerplate stuff called FTGL. It's definitely not modern C++, but it's extremely simple and actually works in practice. --Michael Fawcett