[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] 2D Library, Vector Library or similar.

[From: Martin Guy]

> In another thread, about gnash, they mentioned moving to agg for its
> lightweightness. How do these two compare? Eg. do you think they could
> have moved to cairo as well?

Gnash has 3 rendering options at present, seletable at compile-time.
First there was OpenGL which has problems due to closed-source
accelleration drivers crashing and mesa being slow. Then someone
implemented cairo which turns out to be even slower, and Udo
Giacomozzi just implemented an AGG-based renderer. The AGG renderer is
much faster then unaccellerated OpenGL or cairo and is looking like
becoming the renderer of choice.

To be fair, cairo's site says that now that they have the
functionality they are working on speed, but at present AGG wins hands
down.

   M