On 2009-03-26 14:06-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> Hi Hazen: >> >> I have been testing the efficiency of text clipping for the cairo devices >> for a reasonably modern libcairo (version 1.6.4) and relatively modest >> 2.4GHz PC, and unlike older libcairo versions it is looking good. >> >> Here is one example: >> >> softw...@raven> time c/x09c -dev pngcairo -drvopt text_clipping=0 -fam >> -fflen 2 -o cairotest%n.png >> >> real 0m0.391s >> user 0m0.360s >> sys 0m0.008s >> softw...@raven> time c/x09c -dev pngcairo -drvopt text_clipping=1 -fam >> -fflen 2 -o cairotest%n.png >> >> real 0m0.485s >> user 0m0.468s >> sys 0m0.012s >> >> There is a relatively large amount of text in that example (the contour >> labels), and also quite a bit of graphics. In fact it is that example that >> shows (on the first page) what happens if you don't have text clipped >> properly. But the total difference in elapsed time is trivial, just 0.094 >> seconds. > > Sounds okay to me. I'm a little worried that many people will have older > versions of the library, but perhaps we can have, or at least recommend a > minimum libcairo version during the build process?
Done. See the updated (revision 9775) README.release. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
