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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Im new here, and *<b>relatively</b>* new to cairo programming.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have some questions about performance tuning.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have an application where speed/performance are a very high priority.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This application only uses a few basic drawing/filling routines (no arcs, curves, image overlays, etc.), and png is the only output format that we require.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Up until now, we’ve been using GD, and have recently converted over to cairo.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Although the quality has greatly improved (thanks mostly to cairo’s anti-aliasing), we’ve noticed a significant performance hit (graphics processing time has increased noticeably).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We’ve been using the ‘stock’ cairo libs shipped with our linux distro (fedora), and now we’re considering building cairo from scratch & removing as many extra features as possible.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Assuming that we successfully achieve creating a minimal cairo build, should we see an improvement in performance?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Are there any other steps that can be taken in order to improve cairo’s performance?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any help/feedback woul be greatly appreciated…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>cs<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>