AltME: Ann-Reply

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Gregg
Thanks Kaj and Chris!
amacleod
David, as I was reading your annouce I was thinking about my poor raspberry pi sitting in my drawer with nothing to do because webapps are unusably slow on it. Great to hear. Any idea what kind of performance we could expect on rasPi with rebol 3?
ddharing
ODROID performance was better than I thought. The ODROID is much faster than the Pi, though. Shixin was talking about supporting Wayland over X for the Pi. That may help somewhat. We'll see.
Bo
amacleod: Even without Wayland, R3-GUI on the Pi is usable.  Keep in mind that the ODROID-U2 and U3 benchmarks about 8 times faster than the Pi on most operations.
Cyphre
David, Bo: cool stuff about the ODROID. Pi porting efforts! @Bo do you think you could record short videos of ODROID / Pi running R3GUI  (or other R3 graphics)? Would be interesting to see that.
Henrik
I second that. Would love to see it.

Bo
I'll see if I can find some time to do that.  Anyone have a heavy-duty R3-GUI example that takes a lot of processing power to work?  Something like a demo that does a lot of graphics work?
Gregg
Great news David and team!
amacleod
Bo, any good (cheap) touch screen solutions for ODROID? I like leap motion but as far as I know there are no linux drivers yet...including ARM

Bo
amacleod, have you checked the February Odroid Magazine?  The cover article is about touch screen solutions and what to look for (and look out for).
amacleod
Thanks, I downloaded but have not had a chance to look it over.

Henrik
Sad to hear that, Pekr.
Cyphre
Pekr, yes, that was a bit shocking news back in the November.for me (somehow forgot to post it here on Altme). Maxim hasn't been doing any advancements to the AGG library for years but there is small group of very good programmers maintaining the 'official' sources. The interesting thing about the AGG project is that the core code is so well written so it really doesn't need much to enhance. Even after so many years it is still part of the top open source CPU driven rendering vector 2d engines.
Pekr
Yes, I can easily believe that. Do they advance old version, or the GPL one?
I need to check the state  of Fog library, or what was that Czech project, inspirad by AGG. But in overal I think, that we will be left with Cairo ...
Cyphre
AFAIK They advance the non-GPL version.
Fog is sort of in stagnation, unfortunately.
Oldes
Regarding fog (8 days old message):
Fog on google-code will not be updated anymore, because I started moving all my things to github. The first project that has been released was asmjit and after that I mostly focused on 'blend' - the new name of fog library!
  https://github.com/kobalicekp/blend
The project is now empty and I will announce the initial commit on fog-dev. The key points are that:
  - it will be very clean library, I removed everything not needed by 2d vector drawing
  - the whole pipeline is generated by the JIT compiler (asmjit)
I expect the initial version to be released in two months.
Cyphre
I personally think the Skia lib has big potential...the only problem is they don't support Windows building much so it is quite cumbersome to use it (IIRC).
Oldes, good news about Fog but still, there is a lot of work left to be usable IMO. Also the JIT dependecy can be a problem because he has only x86 cpu covered(at least last time I looked at it). But Let's see how the new 'initial' version will look.
Ladislav
Maxim, we will miss you. RIP

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