Intel ( i845G ) profiling

[Stephane Marchesin]

On 3/7/08, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <raster at rasterman.com> wrote:

>
>  of course a pure box filter would be even better than this... and i suspect
>  some hardware may support that. beyond that you might not find much hardware
>  support and if its back to software in xrender with what i consider "phd
>  research level filter experiments" then i dont think this is something xorg
>  developers should be worrying about. if you want such a filter - it will end up
>  in software anyway and so you may as well implement it yourself and pre-scale in
>  software.

Not really, there are a couple of papers on the topic of implementing
better filters on existing hardware which prove that this is possible
:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/494410.html
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/559923.html

So what you're discussing is definitely feasible today, it's just that
people are not ready to invest much time into the implementation.

Stephane