[Gegl-developer] gegl ops

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris gwidion at mpc.com.br said

> But since you are at this of compositing modes, maybe you ḋ like to 
> sniff my age old idea of programable blending modes.
> 
> It is stored as a GEGL feature request somewhere on bugzilla, along 
> with code that used to work in an old gimp 1.3 that would take a 
> stack of bytecode operators and with that make any custom 1:1 pixel 
> blending in either RGB or HSV and there where even some provisions 
> for CMYK
> 
> 
> I think the idea of such a bytecode could be interesting. It can be 
> too slow for some modes that cannot be cached for any usefull real 
> time stuff - but maybe not.

Perhaps it would be useful to look at llvm as a way to translate the
bytecodes into machine code at run-time.

-- hendrik