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@@ -14,7 +14,14 @@ Performance improvements Within the cairo project, the last 6 months or so has seen an intense effort focusing on the performance of cairo itself. That effort has paid off considerably, as can be seen in the following highlights of -some of the performance differences from cairo 1.2.6 to cairo 1.4.0: +some of the performance differences from cairo 1.2.6 to cairo 1.4.0. + +(Note: The performance results reported here were measured on an x86 +laptop. Many of the improvements in 1.4---particular those involving +text rendering---are even more dramatic on embedded platforms without +hardware floating-point units. Such devices played an important part +of many of the optimizations that found their way into cairo over the +last few months.) • Dramatic improvement when drawing objects that are mostly off-screen with the image backend (with the xlib backend this case is still |