From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: macOS metal rendering engine in mac port Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 09:07:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83a6oooc0y.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11000"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: alan@idiocy.org, mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Aaron Jensen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 21 08:08:03 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ljyKI-0002gN-N5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 May 2021 08:08:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57258 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ljyKH-0000OQ-Pu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 May 2021 02:08:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ljyJo-0008Ac-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2021 02:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ljyJl-00037m-0c; Fri, 21 May 2021 02:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1814 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ljyJk-0003oO-NM; Fri, 21 May 2021 02:07:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Aaron Jensen on Thu, 20 May 2021 18:17:18 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:269524 Archived-At: > From: Aaron Jensen > Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 18:17:18 -0700 > Cc: Alan Third , > YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu > > Inspired by a recent reddit post, I decided to give the emacs macport a try again with its metal rendering > engine (--with-mac-metal). I'm pleasantly surprised by its performance. It's very usable regardless of my > window size. > > I'm curious if now might be a good time to consider bringing over at least this rendering engine from the mac > port and making it a part of Emacs proper. I'm not familiar with all of the reasons for keeping the mac port > separate so maybe this whole thing is a non-starter, but I wanted to raise it because it's a real quality of life > improvement on larger/higher dpi screens. What is the "metal rendering engine", and where can one study what it does?