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255 points rd07 | 1 comments | 20 Aug 24 07:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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artemonster ◴[20 Aug 24 10:51 UTC] No.41298767[source]▶
Do I understand correctly that its a software renderer? They manually blit a buffer from glyphs and use SDL to show it, akin to immediate mode?
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1. ben-schaaf ◴[20 Aug 24 11:39 UTC] No.41299050[source]▶
Immediate mode is the way a rendering API works. Most glyph rendering works by blitting from a buffer, regardless of how they design the API.