On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:41:48 -0300, "bulia byak" wrote: > > sometimes you really do need to use the software backend. We've got > > our own benchmarks on the cairo list showing that liboil code can do > > much faster compositing than what's currently in cairo/pixman and > > several experimental scanline-based polygon rasterizers, (presumably > > similar to the approach in Xara), that are much faster for software > > rendering than cairo's current tessellate-then-rasterize-trapezoids > > approach. > > Great news! So is there any timeframe for when we can see this in > released cairo? Not really. Both of these things came across the mailing list quite some time ago as independent "look, here's some code that runs faster" things, but the actual integration into cairo itself hasn't happened yet. Cairo is participating in Google's Summer of Code for the first time this year, and it looks like a faster-performing rasterizer is going to be a popular thing for people to work on there. So hopefully something will come of that. We're obviously far off topic now... So just to pull it back again, things like good algorithms/implementations for rasterization are a great common touch-point where projects like xara, inkscape, and cairo could all be working together. I'd still love to see a vibrant Xara community within the free-software community. And I'm still willing to do whatever I can to support it. It's definitely a shame that hasn't been possible to date. -Carl
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