[cairo] Text performance on windows?

[Carl Worth]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:16 -0500, Damian Frank wrote:


> Anyway, I guess right now the big thing is, there's an awful lot of
> overhead incurred on the way to ExtTextOutW; the actual ExtTextOutW
> call takes a minority of the time, even in the DIB case.  Is this
> surprising, or is this seen as an inevitable result from having a rich
> API? 

It's surprising, and obviously undesired.

We'd love to help fix it, but we'll need more information from you, (or
someone), on where the problems are. I hope we can find something!

And I hope we can help you have fun with cairo!

-Carl