[cairo] gobject boxed types

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 15.09.08, 13:46 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 15:05 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> > > Actually I just had a random thought - what about putting this code
> > > into pangocairo?  All of Gtk+, GooCanvas, HippoCanvas and Clutter
> > > depend on Pango, and Pango depends on both cairo and gobject.  It's a
> > > bit of an odd fit but the dependency graph would remain unchanged.
> > 
> > cairo-glib seems a bit like shooting a squirrel with a bazooka, in
> > terms of adding another tarball someone has to release and adding more
> > overhead to symbol lookups in all apps.
> 
> If you dlopen cairo-glib and use RTLD_LOCAL I think you avoid the symbol
> lookup overhead. Maybe this is useful?

Interessting. How portable is this, e.g. win32?

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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