Re: Floating point in pango

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 15:46 +0300, Jorn Baayen wrote:

> Just FYI, GTK+ >= 2.8 uses pango-cairo to draw text, which apart from
> using cairo to draw also calculates the position of each glyph using
> floating point whereas this was done using fixed point previously. 
> Pango-cairo alone appears to be responsible for an approximately 30%
> slowdown when drawing text on ARM.

Do you have a profile to prove this?  Many things have changed in the
meantime: caching schemes, fontconfig, internal APIs in Cairo, etc.

  Federico