Cairo is fixed point. Thats not the problem...
Somewhere on the list you will see my call for help.
I'm very aware of whats wrong  I wrote the code.

On 5/17/06, Sean Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cliff,
>
> Doesn't the DirectFB support for Gtk+ require 2.8 or 2.9?  If so, then
> that version of Gtk+ is using Cairo.  My understanding is that Cairo
> is floating point based so on an ARM 9 you will suffer floating point
> emulation which would be a performance hit.
>
> Sean
>
> On 5/17/06, Clif Swiggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi All  -
> > I'm hoping I can get some guidance here.
> >
> > I'm cross compiling Gtk+ (latest CVS) to an ARM9 board.
> > DirectFB performance is great - I can fill the screen with text using
> > DirectFB font rendering and it appears instantaneous to a user.
> >
> > However, Gtk / pango font rendering is incredibly slow.  If I show a Gtk
> > Window with a handful of labels, the text dribbles onto the screen.
> >
> > The bulk of the time is spent in pango_renderer_draw_layout_line (the
> > first call is very slow - subsequent calls are much faster) and
> > pango_renderer_deactivate.  Since Gtk calls these every time it draws a
> > label, the performance overhead is crippling.
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations for speeding this up?
> >
> >
> > - Clif
> >
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