[PD] Gem- Text2d - Trouble

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

matohawk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I made a test with Pd version 0.42-5 and GEM: ver: 0.92.1
> GEM: compiled: Sep 22 2009
> 
> And the text2d object with antialias, I view a crasy performance
> difference between windows and Mac.
> Same patch - same Pure Data - Same Gem
> 
> Patch :
> http://www.th-th.fr/DOCS/Test-Gem/main-test.pd
> 
> MAC OS X - 10.5.6
> 2.8 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
> => CPU load in percent 25%
> http://www.th-th.fr/DOCS/Test-Gem/MAC-Test-Texte-2d-antialias.png
> 
> Windows XP - Service pack 3
> 2 GHz Intel Pentium M
> => CPU load 4.6%
> http://www.th-th.fr/DOCS/Test-Gem/PC-Test-texte-2d-antialias.png
> 
> Is that normal?

yep.

[text2d] uses bitmapped fints, which generally perform way worse than
vertex-based fonts like [text3d]

fgmasdr
IOhannes
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