[poppler] Performance of the wrappers

[Frank Meerkötter]

Kristian Høgsberg wrote:

Hi,

>> in the current CVS all wrappers are dead slow when copying the bitmap
>> data of the finished pdf. The reason for this is that they no longer use
>> a memcpy but two nested getPixel()/setPixel() loops.
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> Is this actually something that shows up on a profile?  I'd think that 
> actually rendering the PDF page would be much more time consuming than 
> just copying the contents, even if the copying wasn't implemented 
> optimally.

I haven't profiled this. It was just my impression when is switched from 
poppler-0.4.2 to poppler-cvs.
Copying is for me more critical because i try to use poppler on a slow 
device and i might display several
previews till the final image is ready.

Regards,
   Frank