Hi all,
in the thread about RENDER extension, it has beem
mentionned that XFree was performing much slower (ie 2
or 3 times slower) than imlib2 (sorry I don't really
remember in which tasks). The reason seemed to boil
down to the fact that imlib2 has arch specific asm
instructions (I think mostly for x586 via MMX or SSE
or whatever) for certain crucial functions.
My question is why not do that also in XFree
(borrowing/adapting codes from images manipulation
libs)?
By choosing carefully the functions to optimize (that
would mean only a few small function so that the
maintainance is as easy as possible) we should avoid
too much mess, keeping portability by using the "old"
functions for arches with no specific optimizations.
Does that sound reasonnable?
Bye
Manu

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