2009/8/13 Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:19 PM, hk_kng<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Helder Geovane kindly asked me to post this here, after I published a >> comment at >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:SVG_image_support#Batik_server_revisited >> This started out when a colleague posted a proposal on strategy wiki of >> throwing >> some foundation money at the active development of rsvg. I wanted to counter >> this with an old question: why not use Batik instead? The decision for rsvg >> in >> 2006 was based on the asumption that a Java application was a bad idea due to >> overhead. At this time, a user proposed a http Server app based on Simple >> (http://www.simplframework.org). He published a demonstration version >> (http://batikd.sourceforge.net/), but noone reacted, and his work stopped. >> Now I >> have taken a look at his approach, and I find the results are not that bad, >> for >> an early development stage: in most cases, the batikd rendering times are >> two or >> three times those of rsvg, and in some specialized cases (extensive use of >> filters), batikd is even faster. > I published some batch-batik performance numbers back when this was > discussed. It wasn't too appealing. I did some a year and a half ago, they should really be redone: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SVG_benchmarks > I still hold the position that if we were to use anything other than > rsvg it should be inkscape, since at least then users could have a > hope of some degree of bug-compatibility WYSIWYG. ;) (and inkscapes > performance is attractive... and at least all the crash bugs I > reported were fixed :) ) Yuh. My tests it came out very slow, and not a good idea unless you're running Windows (since it comes in a standalone package) - but others have suggested that could be starting it afresh every time - if it could run from the command line with a single instance, it could be a bit faster, I don't know. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
