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HarfBuzz Continues Improving Its New GPU-Accelerated Text Shaping Library

Linux Hardware Reviews & Performance Benchmarks, Open-Source Ne… April 21, 2026
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Released at the beginning of the month was a new version of HarfBuzz, a widely-used, open-source text shaping engine. With this HarfBuzz 14.0 release it introduced a GPU-based text rasterization library that supported GLSL shaders as well as HLSL, WGSL, and APple's Metal MSL. Since then this GPU-accelerated library has been seeing more improvements...

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