app_server: fix comment header in pixel alpha overlay modes

* long overdue update to AGG 2.4
* removed the useless parts of AGG (which are only needed for the
interactive examples)
* make sure to jam -a libagg.a to solve any linking issues


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@17838 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* extracted the frame buffer memcpy routine from HWInterface.cpp
into a new frame_buffer_support.h
* added blend32 routine for blending a certain color with
a scanline in the frame buffer
* added "solid" versions of B_OP_ALPHA drawing with
B_ALPHA_OVERLAY alha function (blending on top of
a non-transparent background such as the frame buffer)
* implemented an optimized shortcut for alpha blended
FillRect() in Painter
* used the "packed" version of scanlines for shapes with
an outline thicker than 4 pixels (and filled shapes anyways),
this improves drawing speed when there are a few anti-aliased
pixels at the beginning of a scanline, then a solid fill and
some anti-aliased pixels at the end of the scanline. Such as
large letters.

To summarize: The alpha blending in Painter seems to be about
1.45 times faster than on BeOS R5 which benefits drawing large
shapes. For example, drawing a large alpha blended rounded rect
is 1.28 times faster on the Haiku app_server. On the other hand,
B_OP_COPY is quite tough to beat. It is currently 10 times faster
on R5. But a great deal seems to be caused by the Painter
rasterization algorithm itself, since commenting out the actual
drawing doesn't gain any speed.
The other useful experience I collected was that reading and
writing and over the PCI bus in the same loop really hurts
performance. It is actually faster (like 1.8 times!!) to allocate
a second buffer, read from frame buffer into that, doing the
blending at the same time, then writing the buffer back to the
screen.



git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@15698 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* long overdue update to AGG 2.4
* removed the useless parts of AGG (which are only needed for the
interactive examples)
* make sure to jam -a libagg.a to solve any linking issues


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@17838 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* extracted the frame buffer memcpy routine from HWInterface.cpp
into a new frame_buffer_support.h
* added blend32 routine for blending a certain color with
a scanline in the frame buffer
* added "solid" versions of B_OP_ALPHA drawing with
B_ALPHA_OVERLAY alha function (blending on top of
a non-transparent background such as the frame buffer)
* implemented an optimized shortcut for alpha blended
FillRect() in Painter
* used the "packed" version of scanlines for shapes with
an outline thicker than 4 pixels (and filled shapes anyways),
this improves drawing speed when there are a few anti-aliased
pixels at the beginning of a scanline, then a solid fill and
some anti-aliased pixels at the end of the scanline. Such as
large letters.

To summarize: The alpha blending in Painter seems to be about
1.45 times faster than on BeOS R5 which benefits drawing large
shapes. For example, drawing a large alpha blended rounded rect
is 1.28 times faster on the Haiku app_server. On the other hand,
B_OP_COPY is quite tough to beat. It is currently 10 times faster
on R5. But a great deal seems to be caused by the Painter
rasterization algorithm itself, since commenting out the actual
drawing doesn't gain any speed.
The other useful experience I collected was that reading and
writing and over the PCI bus in the same loop really hurts
performance. It is actually faster (like 1.8 times!!) to allocate
a second buffer, read from frame buffer into that, doing the
blending at the same time, then writing the buffer back to the
screen.



git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@15698 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96