[Cairo] Rectangle-based clipping for surfaces

[Bill Spitzak]

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:04 pm, Keith Packard wrote:

> We could also have an 'clip_end' call and say that the accumulated
> rectangles are intersected with the current pixel clip at that point;
> that's actually necessary for X operations in any case.

I think this call would agree with what I was thinking of, since the clip 
would not actually change until this clip_end call, and it would be reduced 
at that time.

However this still sounds identical to having a fast "add a rectangle to the 
path" call and a call to clip to the current path. It seems the overhead of 
recognizing that the path is all rectangles would be small and the result 
would otherwise be identical.

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