Re: Gtk && Xara

["Joshua A. Andler" <joshua bivenslaw com>]

Colossus wrote:

> Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
>
> > Since the Cairo rendering engine is *SLOW* and the Xara Extreme is being
> > ported to linux, with the full API,
> > i think that´s a good idia to port the Gtk engine to use Xara´s 
> > System since
>
>
> Who told you Cairo is slow in comparison to Xara Extreme ?
> Xara Extreme is not GPL so no port is possible.
A) http://xaraxtreme.org/about/ - Scroll down to the charts. That's what 
shows the difference in speed. Plus with a comparison of Inkscape (with 
a renderer that is faster than Cairo), Illustrator, and Xara I can tell 
you is that their charts aren't skewed. It's just that fast.
B) The Xara codebase isn't available yet, as they're still working on 
porting it. However, it will be available under the GPL in a few weeks 
or so (they've already committed to it and we've been talking to the 
Xara CEO on the Inkscape devel-list about it).
C) The Cairo guys and Xara guys will probably be talking a bit in the 
future as well. If Cairo's canvas can get optimized to even a half the 
speed of Xara's canvas, it'll be happy time for everyone. =D

-Josh