Pixman 0.28 Packs In Major Features
Posted by Michael Larabel on November 08, 2012
The Pixman rendering library is out with a major new release that presents several interesting new features.
New to the Pixman 0.28.0 release is support for sRGB coded images, a new API for fast glyph rendering, fast bi-linear scaling on iwMMX/Loongson/MMX, more fast paths in the MIPS DSPr2 back-end, and faster scaling in general along with special SSE2 optimizations.
More details on the new Pixman release are available from the mailing list announcement.
New to the Pixman 0.28.0 release is support for sRGB coded images, a new API for fast glyph rendering, fast bi-linear scaling on iwMMX/Loongson/MMX, more fast paths in the MIPS DSPr2 back-end, and faster scaling in general along with special SSE2 optimizations.
More details on the new Pixman release are available from the mailing list announcement.
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