Marlin-Renderer and JavaFX

[Felix Bembrick]

If you want to know how to parallelise the JavaFX pipeline (or how it's already been done with amazing results) then talk to me.

If, of course, this email gets moderated...

> On 10 Nov. 2016, at 10:57, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 10 Nov. 2016, at 10:27, Jim Graham <james.graham at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On 10/20/16 5:34 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>>>> For now the OpenPiscesRasterizer class uses a static Renderer (single
>>>> instance) so it is single-threaded.
>>>> 
>>>> In MarlinFX I could prepare the multi-threading support by using 1
>>>> RendererContext per thread (ThreadLocal) as I did in Marlin for java2d.
>>>> 
>>>> However it seems a complex task to enable parallelization in the javafx
>>>> pipeline but I could help there also...
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Enabling parallel rasterization seems like a good follow-on task, but is out of scope for the short term given the
>>> limited amount of time. Also, the only way that MarlinFX even has a chance of getting approved for in JDK 9 is for the
>>> default OpenPisces path to be unaltered.
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>> Also, such a parallelization of the javafx pipelines would be a fairly large task.
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>> I would think an effort to parallelize a single shape rasterization would be much simpler in scope.  Still outside the current JDK 9 timeline, but definitely something that could help in future releases.  I believe that once we put the edges into the internal structures we could parallelize the rasterization of individual scanlines and maybe break a tall shape up into N horizontal bands for N threads.  Other thoughts would be a thread to generate the crossings and N threads to populate the alphas...?
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>>           ...jim