[cairo] Re: Trivial patch reducing fp mults in pango-cairo

[Daniel Amelang]

On 12/13/06, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 16:14 -0800, Daniel Amelang wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, your patches does get rid of the __add for cx, which is nice,
> > but you still have the __mul and the __float. The cy still has the
> > __add, __mul and the __float, but you skip all of them if base_y is
> > zero...is that often the case?
>
> Yeah, more than 90% of the time, since glyphs are mostly positioned
> horizontally.  So the patch should at least cut the remaining floating
> point ops in pangocairo into half.

Then what you've done is a great effort/result tradeoff! Sounds commit
worthy to me. We can revive this discussion some other day if/when
someone cares about getting rid of the remaining FP ops in pangocairo.
I sure don't.

Dan