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Re: Cairo boost

 

I have just fixed the two mentioned problems (screen refresh after flip,
inverted cursor control using arrow keys) and merged the changes to the
master branch.

Regards,
Orson

On 12/09/2016 05:32 PM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Tom has just finished working on cairo backend optimizations [1]. We
> still have a few tricks up our sleeves, so if the current performance is
> still not high enough to make cairo the offical SW renderer, we can
> continue optimizations.
> 
> It is not merged yet, as the most time consuming part is now implemented
> using pixman, which is one od cairo dependencies.
> Wayne, are you ok with making pixman an explicit KiCad dependency? I do
> not think it should be a problem, but I prefer to be safe than sorry.
> 
> Tom's branch also contains refactoring of VIEW/VIEW_ITEM classes
> (decoupling EDA_ITEM from VIEW) and a small bonus feature called
> "flipped view".
> 
> Regards,
> Orson
> 
> 1. https://code.launchpad.net/~orsonmmz/kicad/+git/kicad/+ref/cairo_boost
> 
> 
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