> On Nov 14, 2013, at 17:34, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Anyway, freetype is deceiptivly slow.
> This is because it will invoke a primitive for each and every Character glyph, rather than for string chunks.
> We should do something...

Oh my, we certainly should. And a working plugin for the pi would be nice too. Then a pi version that can use the gpu, which ought to be doable at some point. Then hook it into Scratch so I can support the i18n features properly and fast.

tim