From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: font-backend Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:12:59 +0000 Message-ID: <47B7199B.4070702@gnu.org> References: <8463wrm4ls.fsf@gmail.com> <47B55785.8030802@gnu.org> <47B607C6.20601@gnu.org> <47B61D6A.3070004@gnu.org> <878x1lye80.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203182015 5268 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2008 17:13:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:13:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 16 18:13:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JQQbn-0002pJ-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:13:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQQbJ-0000Rb-P4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:13:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQQbF-0000RL-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:13:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQQbD-0000Qg-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:13:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQQbD-0000Qd-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:13:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQQb3-0004r2-Am; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:13:05 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 42119686/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAKeotkdTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIjDKgMg X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 16 Feb 2008 17:13:03 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89259 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Thanks, but I also asked about disadvantages. TANSTAAFL, and I > believe this case is no exception. > It has had about 15 years less testing. It is noticably slower on Windows (not sure about other platforms) There is no BDF font support on Windows (yet - it will be a cleaner implementation though, with a separate backend) > >> I dunno if any of that applies to Eli, if he uses windows. >> > > Why would this be any different on Windows? > The antialiasing advantage does not apply to Windows, since antialiasing does not depend on the APIs used for drawing text.