xrender status in jdk7

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi  Charly,


> I see youre working hard on the implementation of Xrender pipeline.
> Being using a intel card now, it seems i can't use the opengl pipeline
> anymore. This one is thus very welcomed.
>
> I saw it's on the feature plan for sun's jdk 7. This jdk is availible as
> developpement snapshot, but i could'nt find any new pipeline. I guess your
> code is kept on the openjdk repository.

There are currently two versions of the pipeline:
- The "old" one developed as part of the OpenJDK challenge
- The "rewrite" currently developed

The old version has been integrated into IcedTea, I guess thats the
easiest way to try it out.
I am however afraid you won't be very happy because:
- The latest versions of the intel-driver is in bad shape
- OpenJDK uses the pisces rasterizer, which is a lot slowe than the
closed-source rasterizer used in Sun's proprietary JDK.

The rewrite version is currently developed in private. Not because I
don't want to open it, but because I struggle with mercurial - and I
doubt somebody would have a look at it anyway ;)
I'll upload it to repository as soon as I've some spare time.

> Is there a simple way to test it with the sun's jdk 7 (or event 6) ? The
> website show instruction for "jxrender" 0.1, with files compiled for 32 bits
> systems. Compiling openjdk seems to be unnececessary hard (I need a
> bootstrap?) to get a 64 bit version of those files.
>
> The mailing list seems dead, but if I can test the pipeline I'll try to
> report any bug/problems I can find. (To openJDK bugtracker?)
The best place to report bugs for now is the mailing list.
As far as I know the OpenJDK bug tracker is currently only accepting patches.

Thanks a lot, Clemens