SDL backend¿ about libimageloader HOT 3 OPEN

This project just loads images. It doesn't draw them using any backend. That's something an image view like div would do.

And personally don't see a benefit of supporting SDL since it would just use X under the hood for systems that supported it. It would have use it one wanted to port to systems without X. Not inherently opposed to that idea but wouldn't write the patch myself

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I dont have much knowledge bout it, but loading an image in the cpu wouldn't be slow compared to using the gpu?

This proyect looks even more promising since it can be used in X and also Wayland.

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So there are a few steps involved

1. reading the raw data from disk
2. decoding the raw data
3. scaling the image
4. displaying the image on then screen

A GPU may be helpful for 3, but not the others. This project just does 1 and 2.

This proyect looks even more promising since it can be used in X and also Wayland.

That it can. On the downside it is heavier than just using native X libraries. As far as I'm aware it is just an abstraction layer around many different libraries system like openGL/X. A while the abstraction is nice for portability it doesn't help much speed wise. Or at least using it directly won't yield a benefit compared to just optimizing the current implementation.

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