[cairo] Patch improving fallbacks

[Owen Taylor]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 14:32 +0100, David Reveman wrote:

> > I tested this with image backend, and with the Xlib backend both with
> > and without RENDER (the without RENDER-case tests out the fallback
> > operations).  And it seemed to work pretty well in all cases. I haven't
> > updated the XCB, Quartz, or Glitz backends for the backend API changes,
> > but I don't expect problems; if you could implement the old interfaces,
> > you can implement the new ones, and there is a good possibility for 
> > consirable performance improvements.
> 
> It's going to be a great performance improvement to the glitz backend,
> especially when used with older hardware. I'll implement the new backend
> functions once this gets into cvs.

Good to hear that.

> > I've merged the part of David Reveman's patch that conflicts with
> > these changes to CVS to avoid later merge problems. But there are
> > still chunks of that that aren't committed yet.
> 
> I hope my new patch doesn't give us too much trouble.

Assuming I manage to commit first, you are going to get a lot
of conflicts when updating. But it doesn't look like there is any
fundamental conflicts between the ideas in the two patches, so
hopefully it should be easy to to merge.

Regards,
					Owen

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