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authorWerner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>2020-03-18 18:02:13 +0100
committerWerner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>2020-03-18 18:02:13 +0100
commit8fdf0f9c463a43b306eb4ed19918a4f4006a68bc (patch)
treebc675e2a0b31563d91200363a667c45b6192804a
parent7229306891f835c65caae4645fcab76fd27b9bd7 (diff)
gsoc.html: Update `font-rs` description.
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@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@
</dl>
<dl>
- <dt>Port the <code>font-rs</code> rendering engine to
- FreeType</dt>
+ <dt>Port the <code>font-rs</code>/<code>fontdue</code>
+ rendering engine to FreeType</dt>
<dd>
<p>Raph Levien has
@@ -183,6 +183,12 @@
particular interest is that it is much faster than
FreeType's anti-aliasing rendering module.</p>
+ <p>Note that
+ the <a href="https://crates.io/crates/fontdue"><code>fontdue</code></a>
+ Rust package is another rendering engine based
+ on <code>font-rs</code>, and it claims to be even
+ faster.
+
<p>The gist of this project would be to port the Rust
code to&nbsp;C and to integrate it into FreeType,
providing it as an alternative rendering engine that
@@ -197,7 +203,7 @@
reimplementing). <em>Requirements:</em> Rust, C, Unix
build tools. <em>Potential mentors:</em> Werner
Lemberg, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, Toshiya Suzuki
- (FreeType).</p>
+ (FreeType), Raph Levien (Google).</p>
</dd>
</dl>
@@ -292,7 +298,7 @@
<!-- ************************************************** -->
<div class="updated">
- <p>Last update: 3-Mar-2020</p>
+ <p>Last update: 18-Mar-2020</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>