Human Folly about “font-rs”

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• Inside the fastest font renderer in the world (reddit.com):

  Reddit comments on #Raph-Levien’s #font renderer #font-rs. Raph is /u/raphlinus.

  on 02016-08-03
• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  comments on #Raph-Levien’s #font renderer #font-rs. Raph is raphlinus. #graphics

  on 02016-08-03
• Inside the fastest font renderer in the world (medium.com):

  #Raph-Levien lucidly explains how his new #font rasterizer "font-rs" in #Rust is the fastest (≈6× faster than FreeType). Among other things, he uses #SSE #prefix-sum to do the filling, and structures the parser as an iterator to avoid allocation. #graphics #performance

  on 02016-08-03