Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering
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#2This website almost crashed my m1 macbook pro (renders at 1 fps or something), so I guess point taken: rendering text is not simple!
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#3This is "an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation".
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
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#4This website almost crashed my m1 macbook pro (renders at 1 fps or something), so I guess point taken: rendering text is not simple!
And on my desktop, scrolling this page is painfully slow.
Author: frontend technical lead, setting high code standards
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#5This website almost crashed my m1 macbook pro (renders at 1 fps or something), so I guess point taken: rendering text is not simple!
And on my desktop, scrolling this page is painfully slow. Author: frontend technical lead, setting high code standards
what's worse is that scrolling doesn't actually work unless you have the text area focused/under the wheel... very weird. Which is even worse for PgUp/Down as who would think to focus the area first for scrolling???
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#6SDF seems to be one of the better solutions for text rendering.
Valve had this problem solved since 2007. I'd argue this technique is a big part of what gave TF2 its impressive visual style. That game ran at 100+ fps on hardware like the 8800GT at the time.
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#7SDF seems to be one of the better solutions for text rendering. Valve had this problem solved since 2007. I'd argue this technique is a big part of what gave TF2 its impressive visual style. That game ran at 100+ fps on hardware like the 8800GT at the time. https://www.redblobgames.com/x/2403-distance-field-fonts/
SDF is awesome but even then it's not a silver bullet. It's a raster technique and some people want vector fonts or subpixel rendering.
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#8Stupid question but what are the units used in the results tables??
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#9Meta: this is kind of a repost, not even a month since last time [1].
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#10I wonder how the GPU version is implemented. One quad and one texture draw per glyph sounds very not scalable, but one quad per terminal, one texture atlas and one shader to draw glyphs from the atlas already sounds much better.