System and method for rapidly displaying text in a graphical user interface

摘要

A system and method for rapidly displaying text in a graphical user interface or other application. An initialization module accepts character set descriptions and generates executable code for drawing characters in the character set. Common sub-expression elimination is selectively employed to reduce the size of the executable code by replacing pixel-drawing functions with higher-level primitive drawing functions. Anti-aliasing text-drawing executable code is selectively generated. A display module displays text on a screen by calling the functions defined in the executable code generated by the initialization module.