Lavapipe Keeps Tacking On Features, LLVMpipe Lands New Rasterizer With 2~3x Faster 2D

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Lavapipe Keeps Tacking On Features, LLVMpipe Lands New Rasterizer With 2~3x Faster 2D

Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz is known for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation but recently has also been engaged in some of the Lavapipe software Vulkan driver work and related to that is the venerable LLVMpipe OpenGL Gallium3D driver. Needless to say, there's some interesting work happening...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lavapipe-LLVMpipe-July

[lyamc]

Always good to see improvements like 2x and 3x. I think that's a sign of good code made even better.

[tildearrow]

Faster? And still in software?!
That's amazing.