Cairo's slow rendering on XO-1 (was: olpcgames - mainloop bug help)

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure this is relevant, but I have found that for software rendering
> (without hardware acceleration) agg (anti-grain graphics) is a lot faster
> than cairo. At least it was when I benchmarked them a couple of years ago.
> See: http://www.antigrain.com/  .

There's been a lot of changes and improvements in cairo using HW accel
since then.

Peter

> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:03, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 28.06.2010, at 09:21, Sascha Silbe wrote:
>>
>> > Excerpts from Mart Raudsepp's message of Mon Jun 28 06:37:31 +0200 2010:
>> >
>> >> Currently we (primarily two AMD employees, not so much me) are
>> >> concentrating on fixing some of the awful bugs (many of which get
>> >> triggered only by a newer xorg-server version), such as misrendering
>> >> with HwAccel and rotation issues. After those are hopefully fixed soon,
>> >> some attention will probably start to go on hardware acceleration
>> >> performance, as the current situation is indeed rather sad:
>> >> http://people.freedesktop.org/~leio/geode/perf/
>> >
>> > Awesome (that somebody is going to work on it), thanks!
>> >
>> > Sascha
>>
>>
>> Yay indeed!
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
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