[cairo] more than obtaining the bound of a path.

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 15:10 -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
> 
> Thats for complete containment. I'm not sure if that's what you meant
> by "lies in" or if you simply wanted non-zero intersection, but that
> would also be pretty easy to do as well.
> 
> Easy enough? Or did I misunderstand what you wanted to do? 

Non-zero intersection is non-trivial, for both stroke and fill.  That
needs some new hit-testing API/surface/...

Consider stroking a huge circle of radius 10000 centered at 0,0 on the
screen with default CTM.  It should be a no-op, but it will most
probably consume 100% CPU for a few seconds.

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