<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 21, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Andrea Canciani wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Jennifer Adams <<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><snipped></blockquote><br>AFAIK the are no major cons against statically linking pixman and cairo.<br>Please report any problem you get when doing so.<br></div></blockquote>OK. I will give that a try, liking statically would be better for my purposes. <br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><snipped></blockquote><br>My guess is that the "store-bought" cairo library has XRender enabled.<br>Please try enabling xlib-xrender and check if you get the expected speedup.<br><br>This enable server-side compositing of images and thus is a feature you<br>probably want to enable. It can have a huge impact on performance.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Using --enable-xlib-xrender does seem to do the trick on my mac platform. Thanks, Andrea! Building libXrender from source on the CentOS platform is a temporary roadblock for testing in that environment. I will keep pecking at it and make sure that the dreadful slowness is completely gone. I really appreciate the fast feedback to get me moving forward again... </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span></font></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>