Re: bundlelisation of the backend

[Adam Fedor]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> 
> We could make better use of the NSBezierPath class, by adding a PS call
> to the backend interface to set a NSBezierPath as a whole. The backend
> could than process the data in the bezier path in its most efficient
> way, perhaps without those basic PS calls used now. For the xgps backend
> I know that this will be a lot faster. I don't know enough of the xdps
> backend to tell, how this should be implemented, but it looks like a
> better place for optimization to me.

Well one could use userpaths, but that's oinly worthwhile if the paths
could be cached and reused. It's an interesting idea, but I'd like to
see someway to override the functions/methods directly just in case it
turns out to be slow.