[mcclim-devel] making freetype more portable

[Christophe Rhodes]

David Lichteblau <david at lichteblau.com> writes:

> Finally, if any of you have clim-freetype up and running on SBCL or
> CMUCL, can you do an experiment for me?  Gtkairo's font drawing is
> currently relatively slow compared to CLX.  What I do not know is how it
> compares to clim-freetype.
>
> Could you perhaps benchmark CLX+Freetype for me?  You don't need gtkairo
> for that.  Just run clim-demodemo, select the drawing benchmark and run
> it with the text drawing option.  The interesting bit would be to
> compare the resulting score between CLX with freetype and without.

Haha.  On my x86-64 workstation:

CLX:          ~ 1000 +/- 30 operations/s
CLX+Freetype  ~ 50 +/- 2 operations/s

Cheers,

Christophe