Re: rendering-cleanup
- From: Yasushi SHOJI <yashi atmark-techno com>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp pobox com>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: rendering-cleanup
- Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:59:38 +0900
Hi,
At Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:43:07 -0400,
Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Yasushi SHOJI <yashi atmark-techno com> wrote:
> > I assume I can't do the following:
> >
> > pixbuf = gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable(NULL,window,NULL, ...);
>
> Oh, this is really not what you want to do at all - getting an image
> or pixbuf from drawable is actually going out to the X server and
> "screenshotting" the current pixels, which is typically slow compared
> to any drawing you might be doing. This would be a performance
> negative. the good news is, if you were doing this and didn't need to,
> then fixing this will give you back more performance than you'll lose
> doing a 565-to-888 conversion perhaps.
ah, that's right. my bad. In my case, I don't need any data from X
server (I'm just drawing on the surface), so get_from_drawable() is
waisting the round trip.
> > it just that my hardware platform does not have a powerful CPU like
> > desktop nor server. and if I know that X is RBG565 format, I want to
> > use the exact same format to save some cpu cycle.
>
> To get the absolute fastest performance you'd probably have to use
> Xlib and XImage directly. Though in an ideal world, if you created a
> cairo surface for a 565 drawable (with gdk_cairo_create()) and could
> then draw with cairo operations instead of with direct pixel access,
> maybe cairo would never go through 888. But I don't know whether cairo
> has that optimization, and of course it would depend on using cairo
> drawing operations instead of direct pixel access.
yeah, that'd be a my dream come true, but cairo have dropped....
wait, I guess it's my lucky day.
I just checked cairo git repo and found this commit:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=022291be
Yes! RGB565 support was added back for 1.9.6!
My Debian sid doesn't have that version yet but I guess I'll have to
try that.
Thanks Havoc, Oleg, and Jeff,
--
yashi :-)
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