The NewTextPainter is still disabled by default. A future patch will flip the
flag to enable it.
This patch uses a new approach to writing bindings by encoding data into array
buffers. This approach is more efficient than the existing IDL based approach.
If this works out well, we should convert our other performance-sensitive
interfaces to this approach in future patches.
This patch start down the road of implementing text layout and painting without
the DOM. We can construct a basic paragraph consisting of a single run of text
and we can get through layout without crashing.
Rather than using the DOM to upload text and styling information into the
engine, this patch begins sketching a more direct API that bypasses the DOM and
CSS. Currently, this API doesn't do anything, but it's a first step.
The approach is to have a ParagraphBuilder object that can record a tree of
style interior nodes and text leaves. The build() function then applies
container-level styling information (such as TextAlign) and returns a Paragraph
object that can undergo layout and paint.
The inputs to the builder process are immutable style objects constructed from
primitive values. These primitives are currently carbon-copies of the primitive
we use in the framework today. After this patch lands, I'll convert the frame
to re-expose these values instead of re-defining them.
