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Mozilla Public License 2.0 | MIT License |
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resvg
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Options for SVG / Text rendering on 2D pixel buffer
I've seen resvg as a potential pick, but it feels huge and seems to be importing skia, which itself is a whole rendering engine. Furthermore, I have no idea if I can pass my own 2D buffer to resvg and let it draw to it.
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png crate gets an ultrafast compression mode, up to 4x faster decompression
For example, when converting vector SVG images to raster PNG images with resvg, most of the time is spent compressing the PNG image. This is a lot of wasted work if we just want to read the image instead of transferring it over the network! The fast compression mode eliminates all this wasted work, resulting in huge performance and efficiency gains.
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Is coding in Rust as bad as in C++? A practical comparison
Just as a point of reference, I have a ~75KLOC project (includes dependencies) called resvg which takes just 4s in the debug mode and 8s in the release mode to build on M1 Pro.
- Forma: An efficient vector-graphics renderer
- Inkscape 1.2.2 Released
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Good example of high performance Rust project without unsafe code?
resvg is very fast, although the performance depends on the exact SVG you feed it - sometimes faster than librsvg, sometimes slower (although librsvg is also written in Rust now, it does use unsafe while resvg doesn't)
- Resvg- a fast, small, portable SVG rendering library in rust
- resvg: pure-Rust SVG rendering library designed for edge cases
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How to run this Rust project?
So I am absolutely clueless about Rust and just installed it an hour ago to use this tool called "usvg" https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg/tree/master/usvg
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I think more Rust devs should focus more on rewriting software that is prone to exploitation
So, all you gotta do is rewrite the parsers. Funny you mention librsvg because there is a library called resvg that has a thumbnailer implementation for Windows Explorer. https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg
mold
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I reduced (incremental) Rust compile times by up to 40%
I think this is unlikely to gain traction. I say that no to discourage you, just to explain.
- The community has an instinctive distrust of closed source or a compiler from an untrusted source. If you’re familiar with the Trusting Trust attack you’ll understand why.
- Dev tools in every language ecosystem are almost always free, unless they involve some kind of hosting. People aren’t used to opening their wallets. Look the experience of the guy who built the mold linker(https://github.com/rui314/mold). Far superior to the state of art, improves incremental compiles a lot, widely applicable across ecosystems (C, C++, Rust), CPU architectures and Operating Systems. You don’t even have to modify your compiler, just need to point to his linker. He’s even giving it away for free for personal use. But still, almost no one uses it. The inertia of the established options is really high.
- It’s not complex enough. Think about the complexity involved in the cranelift backend. No one can seriously recreate the efforts of bjorn3. If we could have, we would have. But the idea idea here can be recreated, especially by the experts who already built incremental compilation into rustc.
- But if your solution is truly complex, like the parallel frontend, the burden of maintaining a fork would be too high. You’d have to spend all your time rebasing.
Again I’m not trying to discourage you, just stating the difficulties of making a business in the dev tools space. You would be better off contributing this excellent work to the community and trying a different tack.
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Mold Course
I initially thought this would be about the mold linker (https://github.com/rui314/mold)
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Monetizing Developer Tools
I assume this submission is trying to highlight the specific message (2023-01-24) : https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/190#issuecomment-14028...
Fyi... the author wrote a more expansive blog post about selling dev tools a few months later (2023-06-06) and there was a related HN thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225016
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mold 2.1.0 - rui314/mold
Loongson's LoongArch CPU has been supported. (03b1a1c)
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Mold 2.0.0
I'm amazed at how quickly the author responds to requests: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/1057
From the report to the fix in less than two days.
I'm not sure how competitive it will be with lld, especially if we consider ThinLTO (which takes multiple minutes on 64-core machine) - it can make the advantages of mold insignificant.
- Mold 2.0 released - MIT license
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Linking many files significantly increases build time. Is there an editor that allows you to write a single file but present the file to the screen as multiple 'virtual' files for better organization?
What other solutions have you tried for the problem of slow linking? You haven't even said which linker and what flags you're using. I haven't actually tried it, but the author of gold has an even faster linker called mold: https://github.com/rui314/mold
- Design and Implementation of the Mold Linker
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Apple's new library format combines the best of dynamic and static
> Mold did it first, though: https://github.com/rui314/mold
Before LLD?
What are some alternatives?
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
zld - A faster version of Apple's linker
canvas2svg - Translates HTML5 Canvas draw commands to SVG
wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly
svgomg - Web GUI for SVGO
osxcross - Mac OS X cross toolchain for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Android (Termux)
vtracer - Raster to Vector Graphics Converter
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
lib2geom
chibicc - A small C compiler
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
sccache - Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in remote storage environments, including various cloud storage options, or alternatively, in local storage.