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List:       freedesktop-xorg-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH renderproto] Add floating point transforms
From:       Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-09-30 9:36:59
Message-ID: CAFvQSYSdyWRVaamGCBOuWENM9E7vwO-ogPcO5d7-0U_Nmb3xSQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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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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