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Re:We maintain HarfBuzz – Ask us anything (or tell us what c... by behdad on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @12:54AM (#44655823)
Thank you for the question. Rasterization is not my specialty. There definitely is still immense amount of research going into rasterizing fonts and 2D graphics on the GPU efficiently. Here's the latest from Raph Levien's research for example:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sv8K190Zps
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Re:We maintain HarfBuzz – Ask us anything (or tell us what c... by wiz21c on Friday July 25, 2025 @08:45AM (#44682514)
Thanks, so that video (wasn't much impressed, just some "tile compression").

My question was more about the quality of the rendering (or other challenges) than about the speed of rendering.

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