[cairo] Cairo rendering on ARM
Bob Murphy
bob.murphy at access-company.com
Thu May 24 20:57:01 PDT 2007
Hi,
I've been running some performance tests on SVG rendering using gdk
on ARM without an FPU, and was surprised at the results.
I rendered three passes of over 250 SVG images into GdkPixbufs using
Cairo 1.0.4, Cairo 1.4.4 with standard configure options, and Cairo
1.4.4 built with --disable-some-floating-point defined for configure.
And to my considerable surprise, the results were identical on all
three configurations, within three percent.
So here are some questions:
1. Does --disable-some-floating-point actually do anything? I saw a
note that it had been added in an earlier version of Cairo (1.3.6?)
for future use. And I tracked its effects through configure and so
on, in both Cairo 1.4.4 and 1.4.6, and it looked to me like this
option doesn't currently affect the compile or lin.
2. Are there any other ways to enable optional performance
enhancements for devices without FPUs that I've missed?
3. Generally, what kinds of performance enhancements have been made
for non-FPU devices? I'm wondering if perhaps they've all been done
in areas that simply don't affect SVG rendering.
Thanks,
Bob Murphy
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