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lengyel told me he has implemented some sort of hinting on the gpu for slug (i suspect it's not programmable, but didn't ask)

Very interesting. Honestly I don't know much about hinting, but I suspect the whole shaping stack that Slug supports:

kerning, ligature replacement, combining diacritical mark placement, and character composition. Slug also supports a number of OpenType features that include stylistic alternates, small caps, oldstyle figures, subscripts, superscripts, case-sensitive punctuation, and fractions.

Probably still uses the CPU.

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