[cairo] Glitz surface?

Jeff Muizelaar jeff at infidigm.net
Mon Mar 9 06:29:47 PDT 2009


On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:21:11AM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Trapezoids are a killer.  50% of the CPU.  I hear the span renderer is
> supposed to be Hot Stuff, and I want to take advantage of it.  However,
> the interface seems to be excessive for what I want -- instead of
> "please render the stroke into this 8bpp region", it relies on the
> backend supporting the full interface.  This hurts bringup, and means
> that code like cairo-gl and glitz doesn't take advantage of the better
> rasterizer by default. 

Yeah, the intention is to improve the interface. I'll see what I can do
when I port the win32 surface to use it.

-Jeff


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