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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by mastax on Thursday July 12, 2018 @08:11PM (#17519640)
GPU acceleration would depend on the Xi frontend. I know that xi-win (https://github.com/google/xi-win) uses Direct2D and DirectComposition. DirectWrite is on the CPU, though, AFAIK. It would be cool to hook it up to pathfinder for a full-stack GPU editor, but I'm not sure it would make a huge difference vs CPU+glyph caching.
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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by rossy on Thursday July 12, 2018 @08:35PM (#17519719)
> DirectWrite is on the CPU, though, AFAIK.

DirectWrite rasterises glyphs on the GPU when used with Direct2D. GPU path rasterisation was Direct2D's killer feature when it was initially released with Windows 7.

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