alt Hacker NewsWhy would you allocate/destroy memory in each iteration when you can reuse it to much greater effect? Aside from bad API design, but a language isn't there to paper over bad design decisions. A good language makes bad design decisions painful.
Why would you allocate/destroy memory in each iteration when you can reuse it to much greater effect? Aside from bad API design, but a language isn't there to paper over bad design decisions. A good language makes bad design decisions painful.
The surfaces are all of different size, so the code would have to be more complex, resizing some underlying buffer on demand. You'd have to split up the text rendering into an API to measure the text and an API to render the text, so that you could resize the buffer. So you'd introduce quite a lot of extra complexity.
And what would be the benefit? You save up to one malloc and free per string you want to render, but text rendering is so demanding it completely drowns out the cost of one allocation.