[wxPython-users] Re: Trouble with drawing, I need some ideas :)

[Robin Dunn]

Peter Damoc wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why does it varies so widely? Is Cairo really that slow?
> 
> On 10/17/07, *Robin Dunn* <robin at alldunn.com <mailto:robin at alldunn.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Christopher Barker wrote:
> 
>      > By the way, what is the performance like drawing (blitting)
>     transparent
>      > bitmaps with DC (or GC)? It used to be very, very, slow to Draw a
>     masked
>      > Bitmap to a DC.
> 
>     I'm not sure, but I expect that it varies widely by platform.

I wasn't really thinking about Cairo here, but more about how the 
different ports do their optimization of handling bitmap data, 
transporting it to/from the display buffer, what APIs are available from 
the platform, what has to be done to make those APIs conform to the wx 
API, etc.

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