[cairo] Re: [poppler] Re: poppler profiling on geode with cairo backend

[Soeren Sandmann]

Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> writes:

> That looks really odd to me. In general, text should be rendered
> through the same code paths whether or not there is scaling in the CTM
> I would think.
> 
> If you can construct a pretty small test case demonstrating this
> behavior then that would be useful.
> 

There is this patch from July that sped up PDF rendering in some
cases:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-July/007383.html

I don't know whether it has any effect on this particular problem, but
it does replace a call to CompositeGeneral with a special cased mmx
implementation.


Soren