[cairo] OT: Where to host a GPL project that involves Cairo

[Ivan Baldo]

    Hello.

El 12/12/07 16:17, Donn escribió:
> That makes me wonder, does Cairo use GL if it's available? Or is it 100% 
> independent? I have GL working (I use Blender) and did not think to ask until 
> you mentioned Clutter (which I just saw for the 1st time) and that got me 
> wondering -- perhaps the speed of Cairo has been my nvidia card all along...
>
>   
    I have an NVidia card (6200), I use the ugly proprietary drivers and 
Cairo works faster with the VESA driver (with my app, that is)!!!
    Supposedly these drivers accelerate XRENDER, but it seems that a lot 
of time is wasted actually on the CPU (AMD Sempron 2400+ 1.6Ghz), inside 
the X server and the NVidia driver, so it seems they don't accelerate 
enough for most of the Cairo operations.
    Cairo has a Glitz backend that I never tested (I am doing a GTK 
application and I expect it to run on computers without OpenGL accel.), 
it uses OpenGL.
    Heh!, if that backend gives a good performance boost, then it would 
be nice that GTK used that backend by default for some whitelisted video 
cards, though maybe that is kind of hard to do, I don't know.... 
dreaming is free and nice though, so let me dream :-).
    So the answer is yes, you can ask Cairo to use GL, if you try that 
then it would be interesting to see some benchmarks!
    Bye.

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