[cairo-commit] 3 commits - configure.in NEWS

Carl Worth cworth at kemper.freedesktop.org
Tue Mar 6 01:39:58 PST 2007


 NEWS         |    9 ++++++++-
 configure.in |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

New commits:
diff-tree 8f0ff52cf74fe4b18c46f9a62689b991645295d0 (from 5dfa8c23f13f5cafac5cf56f34888a6e01dc79ba)
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Tue Mar 6 01:39:37 2007 -0800

    Increment version to 1.4.1 after making the 1.4.0 release

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 86ac7ee..56d028d 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ dnl An odd micro number indicates in-pro
 dnl An even micro number indicates a released version.
 m4_define(cairo_version_major, 1)
 m4_define(cairo_version_minor, 4)
-m4_define(cairo_version_micro, 0)
+m4_define(cairo_version_micro, 1)
 
 AC_INIT([cairo],
       cairo_version_major.cairo_version_minor.cairo_version_micro,
diff-tree 5dfa8c23f13f5cafac5cf56f34888a6e01dc79ba (from d7df4d4d4c52c0934bec0c8edad96bb2ea82dc04)
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Tue Mar 6 01:25:17 2007 -0800

    NEWS: Note the x86 nature of the quoted performance results
    
    And mention that embedded systems often did even better.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b4fcd2e..7e3ce5e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -14,7 +14,14 @@ Performance improvements
 Within the cairo project, the last 6 months or so has seen an intense
 effort focusing on the performance of cairo itself. That effort has
 paid off considerably, as can be seen in the following highlights of
-some of the performance differences from cairo 1.2.6 to cairo 1.4.0:
+some of the performance differences from cairo 1.2.6 to cairo 1.4.0.
+
+(Note: The performance results reported here were measured on an x86
+laptop. Many of the improvements in 1.4---particular those involving
+text rendering---are even more dramatic on embedded platforms without
+hardware floating-point units. Such devices played an important part
+of many of the optimizations that found their way into cairo over the
+last few months.)
 
 • Dramatic improvement when drawing objects that are mostly off-screen
   with the image backend (with the xlib backend this case is still
diff-tree d7df4d4d4c52c0934bec0c8edad96bb2ea82dc04 (from d0d2c4030741619accd1eb554531bb6a97dd7ae4)
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Tue Mar 6 01:20:45 2007 -0800

    Increment cairo version to 1.4.0

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b023c4c..86ac7ee 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ dnl cairo package version number, (as di
 dnl An odd micro number indicates in-progress development, (eg. from git/cvs)
 dnl An even micro number indicates a released version.
 m4_define(cairo_version_major, 1)
-m4_define(cairo_version_minor, 3)
-m4_define(cairo_version_micro, 17)
+m4_define(cairo_version_minor, 4)
+m4_define(cairo_version_micro, 0)
 
 AC_INIT([cairo],
       cairo_version_major.cairo_version_minor.cairo_version_micro,


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