[Sugar-devel] SVG performance

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:39:53AM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> It seems GDK supports SVG through a loader plugin.  Can we put the 
>>> blame on librsvg for this slowness?  Are there alternative SVG 
>>> renderers we could try?
>> 
>> There's wxSVG, using libagg: http://www.wxsvg.org/
>> 
>> It has Python bindings, it seems.
>
>Could you do some benchmarking between the two?
>
>I'm not sure we'd ever want to add a dependency on libagg and 
>wxWindows, but it would give an idea of how good or bad our current 
>stack is.
>
>The gnash folks, for instance, report huge performance gains by 
>switching from cairo to antigrain.

Sorry, it is  above my head: I stranded at what sems to be a need to 
regenerate Python wrapper code using SWIG.

If anyone's interested in this, I'd be happy to pass on my experiences 
until I stranded.


  - Jonas

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