[cairo] cairo -> cairo c src backend

[Behdad Esfahbod]

We almost have all the machinery for this: cairo meta-surface.  What
needs to be done is implement methods for meta-surface and some other
types, mostly the immutable ones, to print themselves as cairo code.
This leads to the harder question: what will you do with surface
patterns used?

However, this will be code specific to the C interface.  So, not sure
how useful that will be.

Anyway, it's something to look into when we decide to make the
meta-surface public.  And for the least, we should expose enough API to
let someone write what you propose externally.  Or maybe not.  I'm not
sure.

behdad


On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 12:56 -0400, Mike Emmel wrote:
> I've come up with a intresting idea esp for svg frontends on cairo.
> 
> If we added a backend that simply prints the cairo drawing commands as
> a C source
> function or functions we have a pretty decent compiler in particular
> static svg->native.
> It would be useful for svg widgets for example.
> 
> Worst case is it would be useful for debugging cairo performance
> issues for various
> front ends.
> 
> Mike
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