[cairo] Does Cairo have software-surfaces?

[Linuxhippy]

Hi there!

I am quite new to Cairo and I think its an rather interresting library, 
quite cool ;-)

I have only delt toll now with the Java2D library which is also quite 
powerful (and FAST!!) and it has so-calles BufferedImages which I would 
need for my next project, which are surfaces in system-memory which can 
be accerlated in VRAM under some circumstances, but act from the 
programmer's point of view like any other surface (e.g. all drawing 
methods, blits etc. are possible).

Is this also possible with cairo, and how can I do this?

Thank you in advance, lg Clemens