[cairo] [RFC] Remove client-side workarounds

[Thomas Jaeger]

Sorry, here they are.

Thomas Jaeger wrote:
> Here's an updated version of the patches that applies against current
> cairo master.  I've changed the first patch to require X servers >=
> 1.6.99 for server-side compositing with extend mode EXTEND_PAD or
> EXTEND_REFLECT.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> Thomas Jaeger wrote:
>> These are various performance fixes for cairo moving operations
>> (composite, gradients) from the client to the server, which avoid an
>> expensive transfer of a pixmap over the wire.  For handing off gradient
>> creation to Render, I've adapted an old patch of David Reveman:
>>
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~anholt/cairo/log/?h=server-gradients
>>
>> Especially the first patch is important, since currently it is
>> prohibitively expensive for example for firefox to use linear
>> interpolation for image upscaling due to the client-side fallback.
>>
>> On my system, this causes only one additional test (extend-pad-border)
>> to fail in the cairo test suite.  The expected and actual output look
>> identical, so this could be a subpixel offset in the intel driver.
>> Certainly not something we need to worry about very much considering how
>> many of the tests fail on current master.
>>
>> An important question is when to use Render for Pad/Reflect (see the
>> commit message of the first patch), as we can't detect whether the X
>> server is using a broken driver and/or pixman version.  I haven't
>> implemented any checks for now, mainly because I'm unsure about which X
>> server version would be reasonably safe.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
> 
> 

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