Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Hi Hazen: > > I have been testing the efficiency of text clipping for the cairo devices > for a reasonably modern libcairo (version 1.6.4) and relatively modest > 2.4GHz PC, and unlike older libcairo versions it is looking good. > > Here is one example: > > softw...@raven> time c/x09c -dev pngcairo -drvopt text_clipping=0 -fam > -fflen 2 -o cairotest%n.png > > real 0m0.391s > user 0m0.360s > sys 0m0.008s > softw...@raven> time c/x09c -dev pngcairo -drvopt text_clipping=1 -fam > -fflen 2 -o cairotest%n.png > > real 0m0.485s > user 0m0.468s > sys 0m0.012s > > There is a relatively large amount of text in that example (the contour > labels), and also quite a bit of graphics. In fact it is that example that > shows (on the first page) what happens if you don't have text clipped > properly. But the total difference in elapsed time is trivial, just 0.094 > seconds.
Sounds okay to me. I'm a little worried that many people will have older versions of the library, but perhaps we can have, or at least recommend a minimum libcairo version during the build process? -Hazen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
