Re: [MiNT] Cool new AES features

[Evan Langlois <Evan@CoolRunningConcepts.com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 19:31 +0200, Arnaud BERCEGEAY wrote:

> I like very much the modular approach: a set of plugin specialised for a  
> special file format. Then, if you have a 68060 processor, you can get the  
> plugin optimized for your processor. If you have a great graphic card with  
> built-in JPEG codec, you can built a plugin optimized for it... and all  
> the software will benefit of this !

We're obviously on different planets.  You want someone to make special
plugins for every capability in a different format for each processor,
likely in binary form with the documentation poorly done and in one
language and Atari-only.  Portability is for losers, right?

I'm talking about a standard, documented, programming API with hardware
acceleration capability and device independance.  I suppose so one but
me cares about portability and being able to print it as easily as you
write it to the screen.

The fact that you mention using hardware for JPEG shows we're completely
on different subjects.  You are talking about hardware over 10 years
old, while I'm looking to move forward.  JPEG decompression isn't a
serious task for decent hardware.   I'm talking about color space
conversion, image rotation, non-rectangular clipping, image compositing,
etc.

If all these graphics plugins are so great, why is using them still on
the wish list?  Evidently, there is room for improvement if you still
can't use PNG icons and you are "wishing" for true color icons.