[cairo] Best strategy for complex screen drawing

[Federico Mena Quintero]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 00:20 +0100, Timothée Lecomte wrote:

> Such a drawing with ~10000 polygons (in cairo : filled paths made of 4
> lines) takes approximately 5 seconds with a generic image surface or a
> xlib surface created by gdk (via gdk_cairo_create).

That's horrible performance (0.5 milliseconds per polygon).  We should
be able to provide a really fast, all-software implementation of the
image surface.

Have you taken profiles of this?  Gnuplot will certainly be an
interesting use case for Cairo, and it needs to be made fast.

  Federico