[cairo] Fast text rendering

[Benjamin Otte]

On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 02:49 -0700, michael at cubic.org wrote:
> Is there a good manual or book out there exclusively about cairo?
> 
> I was irritated, that for the xlib surface I get about 170 frames per
> second for a text matrix of 20 by 20 with two digits of text and
> for the xgl surface I get less than 1 frame per second.
> 
Yeah, a factor of 1000 is a usual performance difference between
something that's optimized ok and something not optimized at all.

What's do you mean with xgl surface btw?

Benjamin