On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Till Schneidereit < t...@tillschneidereit.net> wrote:
> From talking to Kyle, it sounds like getting WebGL into workers is > much closer than getting all of Context2D, too. Specifically, we need > text rendering to work, because we have to be able to render device > fonts. Into bitmaps. Synchronously, because everything else would be > way too easy. > > To reiterate, we have two non-negotiable requirements for enabling > off-mainthread usage of Shumway: > - synchronous drawing to canvas, including text rendering > Getting text rendering to work with 2D canvas in a worker is tricky and we may want to implement it by doing blocking proxying calls to the main thread. > - synchronous two-way communication with surrounding JS, with > arbitrarily-recursive calls between page JS and Shumway > That seems like the big problem here. Rob -- Jtehsauts tshaei dS,o n" Wohfy Mdaon yhoaus eanuttehrotraiitny eovni le atrhtohu gthot sf oirng iyvoeu rs ihnesa.r"t sS?o Whhei csha iids teoa stiheer :p atroa lsyazye,d 'mYaonu,r "sGients uapr,e tfaokreg iyvoeunr, 'm aotr atnod sgaoy ,h o'mGee.t" uTph eann dt hwea lmka'n? gBoutt uIp waanndt wyeonut thoo mken.o w * * _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
