Re: GnomeCanvasPixbuf -- Yay!

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico redhat com>]

>  On a side note, one thing I did notice is that the aa Canvas is much
>  *MUCH* faster over a networked X connection than the normal GDK Canvas.
>  (on a 10 Mbps network, anyway).  I have a lot of little tiles on my
>  Canvas (it's for a game), and the GDK Canvas rendered very slow and
>  blocky (sometimes > 5 seconds for a 500x400 window), whereas the aa
>  Canvas was consistently < 1 second.  Naturally on a local display, both
>  are quite fast.

The GnomeCanvasPixbuf item still has some performance issues I'll be
adressing as I go along --- I'm using it for my new icon list widget,
so it must be Fast(tm) :-)

  Federico