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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Typography
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In comp.os.linux.misc 186282ud0s3 <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>   I wonder how much CPU goes into nothing but displaying nice-looking 
>   proportional fonts these days ?

By the CPU standards of yore (i.e., MC68K or 8086/i286/i386) a 
significant amount.

By the performance standards of just about any Intel/AMD CPU produced 
in about the last 20 years or so, a negligible amount.

By instruction count - a lot of instructions.  But reasonably modern 
Intel/AMD CPU's are so fast that the large count is processed really 
quickly.