[cairo] keeping paths as doubles through high-level backend interface

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:13 -0800, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:

> Ok, I'll get started.

I had a quick look at it while waiting the whole Friday night in a
hospital for a doctor to come check out my friend after a mild accident.
It looks harder than I first thought.  The majority of the work seems to
be in cairo-path-stroke.c and that code is called for every
cairo_in_stroke() call.  I wonder if we need a smarter implementation of
that function, or just need to keep both a fixed path structure and a
double one and just create the fixed one lazily, or just go ahead and do
it and measure any impacts later...

> >>     - Vlad
> >
> > PS.  What needs to be done in the 24.8 branch?  Can we get that moving
> > too?
> 
> It's already been merged (a while ago) -- the only thing needed to do  
> the switch is to change the #define in cairo-fixed-private.h, and to  
> double check what happens on linux.  We've already done the switch in  
> mozilla's cairo version and haven't seen any ill effects yet.

Ok, I'll test it here.

>      - Vlad


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