[cairo] cairo -> cairo c src backend

[Mike Emmel]

On 9/22/06, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:43:13 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > We almost have all the machinery for this: cairo meta-surface.
>
> Right.
>
> > 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.
>
> Those sound like thoughts very similar to mine. If we're going through
> the effort to make an admittedly special-purpose C-generating backend,
> then we should probably just export the necessary functionality so
> that others could do similar special-purpose backends around the
> meta-surface functionality.
>
> > 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
> ...
> > > Worst case is it would be useful for debugging cairo performance
> > > issues for various front ends.
>
> Yes, I've had this idea at various times. I've never wanted anything
> that would be very complete, (in the cases I've wanted this, I
> wouldn't care to get C code to reconstruct the source surfaces, for
> example), but it would be convenient to be able to grab snippets of
> code or at least some statistics about what operations are being
> performed at various times.
>

Meta seems to be close but its missing it seems hooking higher
level ops like creation of a pattern or cairo_t. I think there needs
to be another
meta like watcher for resource creation destruction saves restores etc.
Probably most of this can be captured with a meta-gstate



> -Carl
>
> Behdad, what's with the top-posting? My reply is now in
> reverse-logical order. :-}
>
>