It seems adding the explicit dependencies to encourage it to rebuild
components from other parts of the source tree removed the automagic
dependency of libcairoperf.la. So add it to the list. Maybe this is not
the correct solution, but it works again for now.
Rather than complicating cairo-perf to extend it to perform both micro-
and macro-benchmarks, simply run the two binaries in succession during
make perf.
For bonus points, consider whether we should hook cairo-perf-trace into
cairo-perf-diff.
Use the new API Behdad exposed in 1.8 to precompute a glyph string using
Cairo and then benchmark cairo_show_glyphs(). This is then equivalent to
the text benchmark but without the extra step of converting to glyphs on
every call to cairo_show_text() i.e. it shows the underlying glyph
rendering performance.
These tests look at the differences in code paths
hit by filling paths that are rectilinear (or not) and
pixel aligned (or not) with the even-odd and non-zero
fill rules. The paths are not simple, so they don't
hit the special case quad/triangle tessellator.
We don't have one just for this purpose. The only other
path with many intersections that gets actually rendered is zrusin-another,
but that might be sped up in the future (say by identifying
collinearities up front or something like that.)
The attached patch makes the SDL tests compile under Mac OS X. The
problem is:
1) that <SDL_main.h> should be included in files that define the main
function for SDL Mac OS X programs (this is not true with the upcoming
SDL 1.3 release).
2) that -lSDLmain, because it is statically linked, needs the Cocoa
framework in the LDADD of the main program. Again, 1.3 will not require
this.
Include a COPYING inside perf/, test/, util/ to clarify the licensing
conditions beneath the respective directories. This is because cairo
itself (libcairo.so) is LGPL-2.1/MPL-1.1 but that only relates to src/.
The auxiliary source files are under a mix of free licenses and we wish to
be clear just what license applies to each file.
In particular, cairo-trace needs to include the GPL terms and conditions.
Behdad wants to include the feature with 1.10, so we enable it as early as
possible in 1.9 dev cycle to generate as much feedback as possible.
The first change is to use "<cairo>" as being a name unlikely to clash
with any real font names.
This reverts commits:
a824d284be,
2922336855,
e0046aaf41,
f534bd549e.
This performance test relied on the recently-removed ability
to select the internal twin-based font family with a name of
"cairo".
Presumably, we'll want to bring this performance case back when
some other means of requesting that font face is added.
Generate a cairo-perf-diff graph for a series of commits in order to be
able to identify significant commits. Still very crude, but minimally
functional.
Add a new test case to Cairo for checking the performance of Cairo's
equivalent to GDK's gdk_pixbuf_composite_color() operation. That is an
operation that happens to be extremely useful when viewing or editing
transparent images so I think it is important that it is as fast as
possible.
Add the performance test case to compare the speed of filling a rounded
rectangle (one with camphered corners) as opposed to an ordinary
rectangle. Since the majority of the pixels are identical, ideally the two
cases would take similar times (modulo the additional overhead in the more
complex path).
Although cairo-perf is not written to perform explicit failure testing of
cairo, it does generate long sequences of cairo operations which often
trigger unexpected errors. By including it with make check, it becomes
even easier for the programmer to check that one has not broken cairo in
terms of expected behaviour or performance.
This test shows that drawing a 100x100 single-pixel wide box outline is
currently 5 to 16 times slower when using the natural cairo_stroke() as
compared to a rather awkward cairo_fill() of two rectangles.
[ # ] backend-content test-size min(ticks) min(ms) median(ms) stddev. iterations
[ 0] image-rgba box-outline-stroke-100 301321 0.218 0.219 0.39% 5
[ 1] image-rgba box-outline-fill-100 18178 0.013 0.013 0.43% 5
[ 0] xlib-rgba box-outline-stroke-100 379177 0.275 0.276 1.39% 6
[ 1] xlib-rgba box-outline-fill-100 83355 0.060 0.060 0.17% 5
