cairo with glitz vs Xrender

[KAMALNEET SINGH]

Mohan Parthasarathy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I understand that Cairo uses Xrender and on the server side EXA provides 
> the acceleration. I also see that
> glitz, which is not actively developed any more, used GLX with OpenGL on 
> the server side for acceleration.
> I am trying to understand as to whether one is better over the other. As 
> we already use the 3D driver on
> the Xserver today for other purposes, it might be possible that we use 
> that instead of EXA.  I miss a lot
> of history. So, can someone provide insight into this ?
> 

Also depends on where do you want to use it. On embedded, where you have
only ES version of OpenGL, it may be better to implement KAA/EXA instead
of porting glitz to OpenGL ES. And if hardware+drivers can run OpenVG
fast, OpenVG backend is a very compelling choice.

> thanks
> mohan