[poppler] pdf rendering performance on the olpc test boards

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimarts 07 Novembre 2006 18:56, Krzysztof Kowalczyk va escriure:
> On 11/7/06, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> > we have been testing the olpc pdf reader on an test board (based on
> > evince and poppler) and have found the performance a little below our
> > expectations. Simple text pages (for example [1]) take about 4 seconds
> > to render.
> >
> > After some profiling of page rendering on the board with sysprof, this
> > functions appeared using 45% of CPU time:
> >
> > _XcmsLookupColorName
> > _XcmsSetGetColors
> > _XcmsInitScrnInfo
> > _XcmsResolveColorString
> >
> > We are currently using the 0.5.4 version with the cairo backend. The
> > processor on the board is a Geode GX-500 [2], the floating point
> > performance of which is quite poor. Composition is currently done by
> > software.
> >
> > Does this info make some sense to anybody? Is poppler who is eating our
> > CPU or should we look elsewhere? Can you recommend any compilation
> > options that could improve performance?
>
> Try splash backend and #define USE_FIXEDPOINT - this should use
> non-floating point rendering.
>
> In my profiling I never found the actual rendering performance to be
> an issue - it was always parsing. You might try my poppler tree
> (http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/develop.html) to get
> performance improvements in some cases (details of the changes are on
> my blog and in bugzilla with patches, although my svn has some fixes
> that are not in patches I originally submitted).

Are you still thinking on submitting them to poppler HEAD now that you got the 
cvs account?

Albert

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