[Pixman] Pixman on iOS

[Maarten Bosmans]

2011/7/11 cu <cairouser at yahoo.com>:
> I am lifting an old thread here, since there is a bit of data that may
> be related.
>
> I have been testing Quartz surface vs. image surface performance - on an
> Intel Mac.
> The results are somewhat surprising to me. A certain image that's a
> pretty good mix of polygons, lines, icons (copied from another surface)
> and text gets the following drawing times (seconds):
>
> Pixman with SSE - 0.122
> Pixman, no SSE or MMX: 0.140
> Quartz (using fonts through Freetype backend): 0.145
> Quartz (using fonts through Quartz font backend): 0.165
>
> A few conclusions:
> - Pixman is quite a bit faster than Quartz when used by cairo. Assuming
> this extrapolates to iOS/arm - having a proper optimized Pixman build on
> iOS is quite crucial.

This is the same on Windows. The win32 surface using GDI is quite a
bit slower (2-4x) than using an image surface and blitting to the
screen.
I hoped that the Direct2D work by Mozilla would have been merged by now.

> - Even unoptimized, it is still somewhat preferable to use pixman over
> Quartz
> - Quartz is slower with its own fonts - this one I just don't get
>
> As an aside, even if I use exactly the same fonts (selected by name in
> Quartz vs. loaded as file in Freetype), they render differently in both
> image and quartz surface, with Freetype fonts quite a bit "crisper".

I didn't see this difference on Windows. Did you set the anti-aliasing
and hinting options to the same values for both surfaces?

Maarten

> All of the above based on cairo 1.9.8.
>
> --cu
> Andrea Canciani wrote:
>> Cairo should already provide the needed support for iOS in the
>> Quartz backend. If that is the main backend used by the application,
>> Pixman should already be quite usable without NEON optimization,
>> as it will only be used for fallbacks. Of course it would be nice to get
>> NEON fast paths, if they can actually be used on that architecture.
>>
>>
>
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