Hi, I use Cairo/GTK+ on an old linux box. I was using the development (1.1.6) version of cairo for a while, till I switched to 1.2.0 stable. I found the new version was noticable slower than the development version (and to a lesser extent, version 1.0.4). I used a tool called gtkperf to benchmark the different versions (I realise it is not the best tool for the job but atleast it could show the difference) GTK+ 2.10 cairo 1.1.6 GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Tue Jul 11 15:51:45 2006 GtkEntry - time:  0.82 GtkComboBox - time: 14.17 GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 11.41 GtkSpinButton - time:  2.05 GtkProgressBar - time:  1.02 GtkToggleButton - time:  4.21 GtkCheckButton - time:  3.43 GtkRadioButton - time:  4.94 GtkTextView - Add text - time: 10.29 GtkTextView - Scroll - time:  6.10 GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time:  4.10 GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 11.54 GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 24.90 GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time:  3.00  --- Total time: 102.09 GTK+ 2.10 cairo 1.2.0 GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Sat Jul  8 12:22:16 2006 GtkEntry - time:  0.99 GtkComboBox - time: 17.88 GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 15.20 GtkSpinButton - time:  3.24 GtkProgressBar - time:  1.45 GtkToggleButton - time:  4.82 GtkCheckButton - time:  4.10 GtkRadioButton - time:  5.81 GtkTextView - Add text - time: 11.59 GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 11.40 GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time:  3.71 GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 11.13 GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 41.71 GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time:  2.97  --- Total time: 136.05 Unfortunately I do not have the benchmarks for 1.0.4, but from what I recollect, it was only slightly slower (in benchmark) than version 1.1.6. The noticable (to the eye) lowering of performance mainly occured in text rendering. I just was curious to know the cause for the slightly lower performance in the new version of cairo. Would disabling the PDF/PS/SVG backends result in a speed improvement for 1.2.0? Thanks a lot,