[cairo] pycairo performance tips
Prashant Saxena
animator333 at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 10 01:39:46 PDT 2010
Hi,
I am using cairo 1.8.6, wxpython 2.8.10.1 and python 2.6. I have created a
custom OO based scene graph framework. I am using this frame work for a visual
node based application. A similar screen shot can be found here:
http://www.chamberlinproductions.org/Files/Blender/Blender%202.48a%20Screenshot.jpg
From functionality point of view cairo is working great but from performance
wise it's slightly lagging. Although I have implemented
a custom cache implementation to make it as fast as possible but still I need
some tips to improve it.
Once a node is drawn it's cached as bitmap and instead of calling entire drawing
operations, I am drawing it's bitmap.
The main area where I need speed-ups are related to view port navigation:
1. When you select a node and move, you have to repeatedly call the main 'draw'
to update the canvas and it's drawing all the nodes.
2. When you zoom-in or zoom-out (scaling DCs), you have to re-cache the node.
3. When you scroll/pan the canvas you have to draw all the nodes for every
mouse-move call. This is much slower if you have already zoomed-in.(DC's scale
is 5 or greater)
Overall, how do you take out most of cairo/pycairo when you are creating a
frame-work similar to the screen shot above?
Shall I try newer version? (if there are any performance based improvements
rather then functionality)
Cheers
Prashant
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