OP's repository has a Makefile which assumes a docker daemon is available.
Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP is asking how SIMD is beneficial to this specific application. If there's a small neural network involved then evaluating that is probably a good place to use SIMD.
Yes. The program actually includes an ONNX runtime, which uses SIMD to accelerate NN inference.
Re: Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. The program actually includes an ONNX runtime, which uses SIMD to accelerate NN inference.
but... the program ends up entirely compiled and executed as TTF bytecode in the end right, since it's entirely contained in the TTF font ? And TTF bytecode is only the following instructions : https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/... and I don't see anything related to SIMD in there
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-sha...
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#15I love it.
I can't wait for the next beautiful nightmare. Maybe someone should mix font rendering with PDF rendering. Of course, with a LLM doing something in the middle.
Re: Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
#16This is so cursed, there is so much that begs the question - "why?"... I love it. I can't wait for the next beautiful nightmare. Maybe someone should mix font rendering with PDF rendering. Of course, with a LLM doing something in the middle.
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#17Year 2045: fonts become self-aware and go on a strikethrough.
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#18Year 2045: fonts become self-aware and go on a strikethrough.
Re: Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
#19This is so cursed, there is so much that begs the question - "why?"... I love it. I can't wait for the next beautiful nightmare. Maybe someone should mix font rendering with PDF rendering. Of course, with a LLM doing something in the middle.
Re: Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
#20We built a WebGL text renderer with full CJK support using Harfbuzz for our production whiteboard web app. I thought that was complicated until now.