[cairo] Recent commit of cairo-test-trace (which is very cool, by the way!)

Carl Worth cworth at cworth.org
Fri Jun 12 15:52:57 PDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:29 -0700, Chris Wilson wrote:
> +/* XXX Can't directly compare fills using spans versus
> trapezoidation,
> + *     i.e. xlib vs image. Gah, kinda renders this whole scheme moot.
> + *     How about reference platforms?
> + *     E.g. accelerated xlib driver vs Xvfb?
> + *
> + *     boilerplate->create_reference_surface()?
> + *     boilerplate->reference->create_surface()?
> + *     So for each backend spawn two processes, a reference and xlib
> + *     (obviously minimising the number of reference processes when
> possible)
> + */

The other option would be to get rid of all the trapezoid-based code
paths. They're not actually helping anywhere, right?

And shouldn't it be easier to accelerate spans anyway?

-Carl

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