[cairo] Performance of the image surface back-end

[Emmanuel Pacaud]

Hi,

Le vendredi 15 août 2008 à 15:20 +0200, Nicholas Allen a écrit :
> I am amazed that our reasonably simple and quick implementations are
> so 
> significantly faster than Cairo's. I realize Cairo is a more generic API 
> but I had expected it to fall back to reasonably efficient 
> implementations for common cases like filling rectangles on pixel 
> boundaries and drawing horizontal and vertical lines. I expect, these 
> are probably the most common cases for operations inside GUI programs 
> where widgets draw and fill rectangles on pixel boundaries and that our 
> application is not unique in these requirements.   I realize that I have 
> not used the latest Cairo but it did not seem from the change log that 
> much work has been done on optimizing the image back-end and I could not 
> find a pre-build 1.7.4 version for Windows.

It would be nice if you could show us the source of the test code you
use, especially the cairo call part.

	Emmanuel.