On 02/20/12 13:39, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> On 02/19/2012 01:45 PM, Ian MacArthur wrote:
>
>> This was fine, but the cairo mode was painfully slow, so most times we only
>> actually invoked it in the specific case that we were rendering to a PDF
>> surface in the end, for capture of the final output.
>> And on OSX, you couldn't even tell the difference since the base OSX
>> rendering was anti-aliased and composited nicely anyway!
>>
>> Made a big difference on X11, but *really* slow.
>
> I believe Cairo has gotten a lot faster recently. It is being used
> internally by Firefox and all GTK programs.
>
> There appears to be a lot of work on a "Cairo_gl" which implements Cairo
> using OpenGL. That is likely to be fast enough.
Ya, I was impressed with Cairo + FLTK on linux recently,
drawing speed seemed good and of course the output looked
really nice. See:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.fltk.general/25101
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