[cairo] After 'set_line_width', subsequent stroking is slow [ Background image]

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 03:03 -0500, Olivier Jolet wrote:
> 
> > On 2/20/07, Olivier Jolet <olivier.jolet at skynet.be> wrote:
> > > Also, I have another problem of performance, if I use the
> > > 'cairo_set_line_width' primitive, it is very much slower. I don't
> > > understand why there is a such difference? 

So what are you setting line width to and what coordinates are you using
for stroking?  Depending on those, the drawn line may completely include
opaque pixels (fast), or composited antialiased translucent pixels
(slow).

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