[PATCH renderproto] Add floating point transforms
Clemens Eisserer
linuxhippy at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 02:36:59 PDT 2014
Hi Siarhei,
> * Who are the expected users of this new functionality and what are
> the practical advantages for them? Preferably something measurable
> and easy to confirm.
>
> * Are you expecting the existing applications/toolkits to eventually
> switch from the 16.16 fixed point format to the single precision
> floating point format? Or is it only intended to be used by a few
> selected tools, such as xrandr?
At least I intend to use it for the Java2D xrender pipeline, therefore
almost all graphical java programs will benefit from this (and I guess
it won't take too long until it is exposed by Cairo too).
Br, Clemens
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