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GPU support was removed from Cairo, because it was slower than CPU rendering and nobody wanted to maintain it.
by Asm2D 3y ago
GPU support was removed from Cairo, because it was slower than CPU rendering and nobody wanted to maintain it.
- tetromino_ 3y agoCairo's OpenGL support was removed, but I thought Cairo's X11 backend still has GPU acceleration for a few operations through XRender (depending on your video driver).
- Asm2D 3y agoThat's true, Cairo still provides XRender backend. Not sure it's that usable though as I think nobody really focuses on improving XRender, so it's probably in the same state as Cairo itself.