When I said Cairo felt rather slow, I was comparing it again fully hardware accelerated solutions. .. IMO the future is fully hardware accelerated rendering on the GPU, like OpenVG. It will take a while before it is common to see glyphs being rendered on the GPU, but I'm sure this is all doable.
There seem to be some older references to an OpenGL backend for Cairo http://www.cairographics.org/OpenGL/ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/glitz http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/freenix/nilsson.html aiming for hardware acceleration. There doesn't seem to be anything newer than 2006, though, which is puzzling, as the OpenGL backend is still advertized - is it still supported? A common standard would be useful, but OpenVG doesn't look like "ready soon". On the declarative side, there's also SVG.. Claus _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
