Cairo is now the graphics back end for Firefox, yes? I thought moving to Cairo resulted in a considerable rendering speedup for FF.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Peter Verswyvelen <bugf...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > -- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - A. Einstein
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