From 5dfa8c23f13f5cafac5cf56f34888a6e01dc79ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 01:25:17 -0800 Subject: NEWS: Note the x86 nature of the quoted performance results And mention that embedded systems often did even better. --- NEWS | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b4fcd2e1..7e3ce5e2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,7 +14,14 @@ Performance improvements Within the cairo project, the last 6 months or so has seen an intense effort focusing on the performance of cairo itself. That effort has paid off considerably, as can be seen in the following highlights of -some of the performance differences from cairo 1.2.6 to cairo 1.4.0: +some of the performance differences from cairo 1.2.6 to cairo 1.4.0. + +(Note: The performance results reported here were measured on an x86 +laptop. Many of the improvements in 1.4---particular those involving +text rendering---are even more dramatic on embedded platforms without +hardware floating-point units. Such devices played an important part +of many of the optimizations that found their way into cairo over the +last few months.) • Dramatic improvement when drawing objects that are mostly off-screen with the image backend (with the xlib backend this case is still -- cgit v1.2.3