I don't have the code (it's not dead easy to release it now), but I do know the tests were pretty simple. We just rendered, repeatedly, a fixed bezier filled shape (in fact this shape or something very like it, attached), and timed how long it took to render it say 20,000 times on top of itself into an off-screen bitmap. We then compared various fill styles, flat colour, graduated fill (like the attached) and with or without a stroke and with and without transparency. So the tests of the different engines was pretty simple. I recall that we found AGG to be quite a lot faster than Cairo (but this was probably around the time of Cairo 1.0). So these tests were for the raw engine speed, nothing to do with the drawing program (we have other tests for that, that are just as easy - replicate said shape 20,000 times, and then just time how long it takes to redraw. That's how we test basic performance against Illustrator and other drawing programs). Charles > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Worth > Sent: 28 February 2007 17:20 > To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Alex Bligh > Subject: Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Move from CDraw to AGG > > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:43:54 +0000, Luke Hart wrote: > > AGG is currently much more efficient than Cairo (my simple tests > > indicated getting on for an order of magnitude), so may > well be better > > in the short term. > > Could you provide some of those tests to the cairo community, > (or even just point them out to me here, or privately). > > There was a Mozilla-sponsored Summer of Code project last > year to implement an AGG backend for cairo---with the hope > being that any performance benefit that AGG has could become > part of cairo itself. > > That backend did become functional, but the timings suggested > it wasn't significantly faster than the software in cairo > that it was replacing. > > So I'm curious to see why you came up with such different > results in your comparison. > > -Carl > >
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