Re: How many use the diagram tree?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 9 Aug 2003, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:11:20 -0500, Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>
> wrote:
> > > And while I'm on that subject, is there anything I can do to make
> > > scrolling at low maginfications faster?  
> >
> > If this is with 0.91, then most likely text rendering is to blame.
> > Especially when using AA, it has taken a performance hit,  I think there
> > are some caching opportunities we're missing so far.
>
> What about the optimal optimization, Lars?  I.e. do nothing: at some
> level of [de]magnification, the text is illegible.  At that point, would
> it be faster to render the text as '...' or something like that?  I
> blindly surmise that a whole bunch of effectively useless font outline
> calculations are going on.

Yes, that'd be a good idea.    But at higher mags we still have to have fast
rendering. 

-Lars

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