This moves some logic that was previously being done per-character into
the vertex shader. At this time, we've traded CPU computation for
additional gl::Uniform2f calls. This is only a marginal improvement.
However, this patch positions the renderer well for instanced drawing,
and that will be a huge performance win.
Recompiling the entire program whenever a shader changes is slow, and it
can interrupt flow. Shader reloads are essentially instantaneous now. If
the new shader fails to compile, no state is changed; the previous
program continues to be used.
This dramatically reduces the number of BindTexture calls needed when
rendering the grid. Draw times for a moderately full terminal of the
default size are ~1ms with this patch.
This moves the rendering logic to draw the grid, to draw strings, and to
draw the cursor into the renderere module. In addition to being an
organizational improvement, this also allowed for some optimizations
managing OpenGL state. Render times for a moderate screen of text
dropped from ~10ms to ~4ms.
This patch introduces basic support for terminal emulation. Basic means
commands that don't use paging and are not full screen applications like
vim or tmux. Some paging applications are working properly, such as as
`git log`. Other pagers work reasonably well as long as the help menu is
not accessed.
There is now a central Rgb color type which is shared by the renderer,
terminal emulation, and the pty parser.
The parser no longer owns a Handler. Instead, a mutable reference to a
Handler is provided whenever advancing the parser. This resolved some
potential ownership issues (eg parser owning the `Term` type would've
been unworkable).
Uses the GL_ARB_blend_func_extended to get single-pass, per-channel
alpha blending. gl_generator is now used instead of gl to enable the
extension.
The background color is removed since that presumably needs to run in a
separate pass.
OpenGL only supports shared alpha blending. Subpixel font rendering
requires using the font RGB values as alpha masks for the corresponding
RGB channels. To support this, blending is implemented in the fragment
shader.
Joe Wilm