From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden schemamania org>
To: dia-list gnome org
Subject: Re: How many use the diagram tree?
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 14:55:56 -0400
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:11:20 -0500, Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu>
wrote:
> > And while I'm on that subject, is there anything I can do to make
> > scrolling at low maginfications faster?
>
> If this is with 0.91, then most likely text rendering is to blame.
> Especially when using AA, it has taken a performance hit, I think there
> are some caching opportunities we're missing so far.
What about the optimal optimization, Lars? I.e. do nothing: at some level
of [de]magnification, the text is illegible. At that point, would it be
faster to render the text as '...' or something like that? I blindly
surmise that a whole bunch of effectively useless font outline
calculations are going on.
Regards,
--jkl