[gnome-love] Re: Canvas redraw priority

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:
> Hi Jody,
>
> On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 23:00, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > The 2.0 canvas is bletcherously slow.  So slow I am contemplating a
> > switch to the simplified 'foocanvas' module.
>
>       Do you have a simple test case that I can use to profile / speed it up
> ? do you have any idea where the bottlenecks / problems are ? what's the
> story ?

Basically foocanvas reverts the canvas to pre-libart days, and makes
it use native GTK mechanisms such as double buffering. Drops
microtiles, GnomeCanvasShape, etc. See foocanvas/README.

Havoc