Why is drawing a line less than 1.5 pixels thick twice as slow as drawing a line 10 pixels thick?
Summary: Antialiasing subpixel thickness lines is hard work and requires a number of dirty tricks to output what we intuitively expect to see. The extra effort you’re seeing is almost certainly due to antialiasing. When the line thickness is less than one pixel and the line doesn’t sit squarely at the center of a row … Read more