Alan W. Irwin wrote: > 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.
I was thinking about putting the warning into the cairo.cmake. Is that possible? Any pointers on where to look for an example of how to do this? -Hazen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
