On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Justin Novosad <ju...@google.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Rik Cabanier <caban...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Joe Gregorio <jcgrego...@google.com >> >wrote: >> > What part is slow, the decoding and re-encoding, or is just always the >> > encoding step >> > that is slow? >> >> It's decoding/re-encoding of an already constructed path. > > Can't the implementation just perform that work lazily the first time the > path is rasterized, and retain the cached result for subsequent use of the > path object?
This is also my question. Given that generating a path for a particular context isn't a magic bullet *anyway* (because the details of the context can change), I don't understand why caching isn't the answer. ~TJ