alt Hacker NewsAre you claiming that scrapping together boxes and whatnot with line drawing characters is more efficient than just drawing the lines directly?
Are you claiming that scrapping together boxes and whatnot with line drawing characters is more efficient than just drawing the lines directly?
I think they're claiming that having character-based pipelines and algorithms can be more efficient than doing everything on the level of pixels... I can't help but feel there's a middle-ground somewhere, though.