Re: "what about L4 and QNX -- are they unsuccessful, too?"
"You can't easily pre-compute each font glyph (at any size?) - because its actual display may depend on what's before, after and below."
But what about computing font glyphs in userland THEN pushing it on to the kernel for compositing like a layer? I can see things like 3D rendering necessarily being kernelland because it's the GPU that does the actual lifting; same with video acceleration. But fonts?
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