SciD: the humble beginning

[Michal Minich]

>> Is it really that hard to have the GUI libs in question just give you
>> some pixels in memory or an opengl context?  Then you could use your
>> own highly optimized plot drawing routines instead of relying on the
>> GUI lib to do this.  I figured this kind of thing would be unbeatable
>> for performance, unless the library ties your hands.
>> 
> I had considered this.  The biggest problem is font rendering.
> 

on Windows, function CreateDIBSection can be used to create block of memory 
directly accessible by application, while it can be used for GDI functions, 
including text rendering. I use it in some D code, and it is quite easier 
to use than it may look from the docs.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183494%28VS.85%29.aspx