Not that I'm complaining, Vulkan support is pretty cool wherever it lands, but is it really necessary in a Office Suite? Just how gpu intensive is text editing?

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LibreOffice-7.0-Skia-Text-Git
@alyx surprisingly, very
you need a lot of rendering and transformations with the potential amount of vector text you need to render
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@tuxcrafting @alyx in general it cuts both ways. If the application is less intensive, better API will allow it to be even less intensive.

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