[cairo] clip stack composition performance

[Alexander Larsson]

Poppler with cairo is very slow at rendering this file:
http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/skydda.pdf

It turns out that a lot of the time is spent in the general compositor
code doing PIXMAN_OPERATOR_IN on the a8 clip masks when clip regions are
stacked on top each other.

Just for fun I added some special case code for a8 IN operations to
libpixman, see attached (not very well tested) patch. (Although owen
said I shouldn't touch the libpixman compositing code until the new
compositing code from the X server is merged...)

It makes quite a difference rendering the pdf, but its still sort of
slow. The main thing making it slow seems to be the poppler image
rendering code (25% or so) and the fact that non-pixel-aligned clipping
rects make all rendering use/create large clip masks. This poppler
badhack makes it much faster:

diff -u -p -r1.14 CairoOutputDev.cc
--- poppler/CairoOutputDev.cc   26 May 2005 13:03:35 -0000      1.14
+++ poppler/CairoOutputDev.cc   10 Jun 2005 08:24:53 -0000
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ void CairoOutputDev::eoFill(GfxState *st
 }
 
 void CairoOutputDev::clip(GfxState *state) {
-  doPath (state, state->getPath(), gFalse);
+  doPath (state, state->getPath(), gTrue);
   cairo_set_fill_rule (cairo, CAIRO_FILL_RULE_WINDING);
   cairo_clip (cairo);
   LOG (printf ("clip\n"));

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