Re: [Gnash] Gnash speed and free software

[kfs1]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:59:06 +0200, Rob Savoye <address@hidden> wrote:

> Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> > > > I tried Gnash and it's good to have such a nice tool.
> > > > One cons: as it was already reported, it is really slow. I read that
> > > > it is recommended to get a 3D card to cope with that.
> > > >
> > > > However these days, all the 3D cards out there require proprietary
> > > > drivers to be useful in this regard.
> >  The situation is not that sad, even though it's problematic at the  
> > moment.
>
>    The main reason to develop a Cairo (or other 2D backend) is for  
> speed, as well as a smaller footprint for embedded devices. I'm  
> currently stuck running without any hardware acceleration (ATI cards  
> suck...), and on a P4, it's ok, but definitely slow. Right now the Cairo  
> backend isn't fully functional, but could be if somebody felt like  
> focusing on this task.

I was reading about the performance of cairo on  
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/about/performance.html versus xara's. The thing  
I don't understand is why this code isn't ported into cairo now that xara  
is opensource so that that too will benefit from the, well, opensourcing.

Now i'm not a programmer but maybe one of you could do it? Wouldn't this  
almost solve the speed problem?

just asking.

Thanks.

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