[cairo] [cairo-commit] 5 commits - src/cairo-xlib-surface.c

[Bill Spitzak]

> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:56 -0700, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>     [xlib] Start a new glyph element every 128 glyphs
>>     
>>     Xrender has limits at 252 glyphs.  We play safe and fast and limit
>>     elements to 128 glyphs.  That's plenty, no measurable performance
>>     hit expected.

I actually found that the Xrender bug is that it will crash if the 
number of glyphs is such that (N&0xff)>252. Ie 256 will work. The 
work-around I used was to add 1 or 2 spaces to the end in these cases. 
Not sure if that would be better or worse than what you are doing.

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