[cairo] Stroke vs. fill for rectilinear figures

[Carl Worth]

[GNOME performance folks, I'm pulling you in on this thread since I'm
curious at how often the bug mentioned is getting hit. For detailed
background on this performance bug (and several others we're looking
at in cairo right now), see:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-November/008433.html

]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:17:22 -0800, Carl Worth wrote:
> * Stroke vs. fill for rectilinear figures
>
>   *Help wanted*: Need the trivial performance test case

I wrote this test and pushed it out. As expected, the stroke code is
quite a bit slower (5-15x slower in fact). Here are some image and
xlib backend numbers from my laptop:

backend-content               test-size min(ticks)  min(ms) median(ms) stddev.
  image-rgba    box-outline-stroke-100     301321    0.218    0.219  0.39%
  image-rgba      box-outline-fill-100      18178    0.013    0.013  0.43%
   xlib-rgba    box-outline-stroke-100     379177    0.275    0.276  1.39%
   xlib-rgba      box-outline-fill-100      83355    0.060    0.060  0.17%

So, the stroke is equally slow for both image and xlib, while the fast
path that fill gets is 15x faster for the image backend and 5x faster
for the xlib backend, (why the xlib fast path isn't as fast as the
image backend's is another issue we could look into next).

So this will definitely be an interesting thing to fix.

I am curious to know how often this bug is getting hit. I would
imagine that rectilinear elements like this are extremely common. But
when I mentioned this bug to Owen once he said that GTK+ (in the
default theme at least) doesn't actually use cairo for drawing box
outlines. But for other themes, who knows?

I know some theme authors have definitely hit this bug, since they're
the ones who originally pointed it out to me.

Who's going to be the first to fix it? (You can probably get a nice
head start on me as one of my son's has his 7th birthday tomorrow).

See you all on Monday,

-Carl
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