On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 20:44, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, MenTaLguY wrote:
I actually suspect that even current versions of Cairo, used carefully, should prove faster than the livarot-based renderer.
I'm basing the above off of comments from ishmal; he did a rough comparison iirc a couple weeks ago, and found it rendered right but was noticeably slower.
Interesting; what was the test case?
I think 200% improvement is would be the minimum reasonable goal, if we were to take a benchmark-based approach.
Okay, 200% would be a nice achievement. :-)
I sort of assume that if we pick N testcases, we may be able to get order of magnitude gains out of some of them, but if we average over all of them the summed up number may be different. I guess we can figure all that out when those test cases are selected.
I think for that reason they're better off just as goals for the "perf" release rather than requirements; in some cases large speedups might be possible, but might have e.g. unacceptable time/memory tradeoffs.
-mental