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(17.05.2024 07:01)VeraBecker писал(а):  

(16.05.2024 19:09)SWAT писал(а):  The rendering type does not affect image loading speed. Quite the contrary, for hardware rendering of images you also need to load them into video memory, which will only slow down the loading. So loading speed is not equal to rendering speed. These are different things.
SDL was chosen a long time ago and because of its simplicity and convenience. Yes, I would like the rendering to be faster in some places, but this only appears when scrolling the list of files and the console text, nothing more. Otherwise it works quite well. For special cases such as video frames display, there is a mechanism for hardware rendering on top of a software screen. This one is used for camera previews.
Thus, the DS has a hybrid rendering mechanism.

I see, do you think it's possible to upgrade SDL to a newer version? Or is it too difficult?

It couldn't work any better and this is not easy to do. I don't see the point in this.
What specifically don't suit you in current version of SDL?
The DS is designed in such a way that you can write anything at any time with hardware acceleration with PVR or Parallax API, on top of the built-in UI on SDL. But of course DS doesn't have hardware GUI API, so you need write your own buttons and so on.
Rewrite DS GUI API for hardware rendered it's like a developing new DreamShell 5.0 and rewrite all apps.