Before the current changes, all surfaces were painted using a full-screen overlay, no matter how large the object was rendered. This approach is redundant and required reorganization. At the moment, all objects are rendered using an overlay equal to the box of the object itself, which reduces the cost of filling the surface.
Also surfaces and images were divided into different entities, which reduces the pressure on memory.
Also geometry data for rendering and geometry data for calculations in system memory were logically separated.
For further development of features, we need to create off-screen buffers that will allow us to implement functionality related to composition and blending, as well as for loading data to system memory from the framebuffer. Separating the framebuffer into a separate entity allows you to create several instances of them, switch between them, and blend them according to given rules.
For current time we have only a single render target instance, that have a handle to drawing into surface surface, like a native window.
New approach allows:
- offscreen rendering
- render pass handling
- switching between render targets
- ability to render images, strokes and shapes into independent render targets
