I found Cairo rather slow, even on the fastest hardware. Maybe OpenVG will take off one day: http://www.khronos.org/openvg
2009/1/30 Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com>: > Hi, Antony - > > It's good to see you active on here. > >> >> It's not clear to me if the Cairo API in its current form supports >> vector-level clipping or constructive area geometry, [...] > > The Cairo clipping API is very PostScripty; you set up a path and then turn > it into a clip region instead of filling it. You don't end up with a > first-class value, but a manipulation of the implicit global rendering > state. For CAG-style operations, http://lib2geom.sourceforge.net/ would be a > better bet, but FFIing to a library written in C wouldn't necessarily be a > real improvement over just writing a CAG library natively. I think it would > be true to say that you can't quite get everything you would want in one > easy-to-use place, then. > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
