[cairo] set_source_rgb vs set_source_rgba [Performance]
Ian Britten
britten at caris.com
Fri Aug 15 12:10:56 PDT 2008
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>>> I would hope that this makes absolutely no difference if the alpha is
>>>> 1.0. If it does then it is definately Cairo's fault IMHO.
>>> I agree. I have a vague memoy that we did that at some point, but the code
>>> doesn't show that. Chris may know?
>>
>> I did add a check at the entry point to convert a call to set_rgba into
>> set_rgb if opaque. Behdad chose to move the check down to the
>> _cairo_pattern_init_solid() so that it covered all paths, as part of his
>> work into supporting dithering.
>
> Right. I see it now. So yeah, there's absolutely no perf hit in using rgba
> with alpha 1.0
Many thanks for confirming this! It lets me keep my code simpler! :)
Ian
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