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> They’re fine little web browsers if you manage to enable web browser acceleration for the integrated intel video card.

Hardware acceleration makes things slower, not faster.

> Software rasterizers can’t keep up with that (even on 32 core, >200W TDP xeons, from what I’ve seen...)

You're nuts. Software rasterizers keep up with DOS games just fine, even on an old 386.

It's the fact that they're trying to use Javascript and other garbage-collected or object-oriented languages to code these rasterizers.



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