[pygtk] cairo speed

[David Ripton]

On 2008.12.03 11:34:00 +0100, Frédéric wrote:
> I'm using the basic drawing functions of a DrawingArea, and I was
> wondering if using cairo module would speed up things? I can draw a lot
> of rectangles (from 10 to 500), for which I change colors, and the
> refresh takes some time on Nokia/maemo plateform.
> 
> Do you think cairo will be better here?

Yes.

I just tested it, and Cairo was significantly faster on my box.  (About
0.03s vs. 0.13s on average.  YMMV.)

My test program is here:
http://ripton.net/blog/?p=32

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David Ripton    dripton at ripton.net