OpenVG 1.0 State Tracker Is Here!

[krazy]

Qt 4.6 has added an OpenVG renderer. The OpenVG codepath is faster than OpenGL in Qt (OpenGL support is too complex; OpenVG, being a 2D API, maps almost directly to QPaintEngine). This means that with Gallium3D, all Qt/KDE apps would get a huge boost in GUI performance.

I didn't know that, great
For anyone else interested, found some more info here. Though it seems that the performance OpenGL v OpenVG could be fairly "situation dependent".

[Ant P.]

*insert snark comment about e17 already being that fast*

But seriously, if Cairo picks it up too, this will be great. <canvas> in Firefox (and in Konqueror) will basically get HW accel for free.

[RealNC]

Qt 4.6 has added an OpenVG renderer. The OpenVG codepath is faster than OpenGL in Qt (OpenGL support is too complex; OpenVG, being a 2D API, maps almost directly to QPaintEngine). This means that with Gallium3D, all Qt/KDE apps would get a huge boost in GUI performance.

[Ex-Cyber]

Actually, there usually is a source link. It might be one external link in a dozen, but in my experience it's usually there.

[Duo Maxwell]

It is stupid to link your own posts on every article you publish. Why you never link to official pages, wikipedia or source anouncement?
It would be very helpful.

This is not the first time someone complains about this.

Page views and ad bucks.

[RoboJ1M]

I am literally gibbering with excitement over Gallium3D.
Really honestly truely (?) something that no other platform can do (or will ever do?)

Of course, I'm assuming that Win32 doesn't do all this already but it's probably a safe assumption.

OK, Gallium3D with OpenVG and OpenGL with the Freescale i.MX515 CPU in a netbook.

YES PLEASE!! 8@

J.

[MaestroMaus]

It is stupid to link your own posts on every article you publish. Why you never link to official pages, wikipedia or source anouncement?
It would be very helpful.

This is not the first time someone complains about this.

+1 Quoted For the Thruth

[siu4coders]

It is stupid to link your own posts on every article you publish. Why you never link to official pages, wikipedia or source anouncement?
It would be very helpful.

This is not the first time someone complains about this.

[MuPuF]

A friend of mine tried it on his damnly slow intel AGP. Gtkperf under kwin went from 23 seconds to 20 seconds.
Lines and circles could have been faster, maybe it has to do with the fact gallium3D isn't fully used by the intel driver.

Does anyone have any idea or feeling about it ?

[Adarion]

Hey folks

could somebody translate me what exactly this means? Vector graphics acceleration: Does it mean we will have HW accelerated SVG graphics? Flash content (which often should be moving vector graphics) too?

Moreover is there any wiki or something which finally and ultimately explains all those x-org/graphics related terms. I lost overview sometime. There is Tungsten, there is intel tech, there is kernel-side stuff and the userland x-org stuff. And so on. I think I can't follow all the new techs.

edit OMG. There's a sticky thread in here. Should have a look at this.