[cairo] Cairo and layered application

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sat Mar 3 08:12:05 PST 2007


On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 02:06 -0500, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Daniel Amelang wrote:
> > Besides that, it is interesting to note that cairo spends about 10% of
> > the overall time in malloc and free combined.
> 
> I've noticed the same thing with Gecko profiles, often with the number being as 
> high as 15-25%.
> 
> Are you generally interested in data of this sort?  If there's something I can 
> do to help improve cairo performance, I'd love to help.

Definitely.  Pass 'em on.  Specifically, I'm really interested in a call
graph to malloc.  There's a lot we can do to drop those.

> -Boris

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