$ apt-cache search cairo | grep cairo | less shows... libcairo2 - Cairo 2D vector graphics library
so following the pattern for Debian here... http://pharo.org/gnu-linux-installation I presume... $ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install libcairo2:i386 ...but haven't tried this since I'm using 32-bit Debian. cheers -ben On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > ah yes it needs the 32 bit libs of cairo, yeah good luck with that, cant > wait till we finally support 64 bit, but far my most needed feature of > pharo. No idea how to find 32 bit lib of cairo, google returns nothing > meaningful, download page of cairo website mentions nothing. > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:52 PM Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> does not work for me on ubuntu it keeps saying that "cannot locate cairo >> library" even though its installed via >> >> sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev >> >> By the way just for the fun, I will make a benchmark comparison betweem >> PNG loader in pharo and SDL in C to see what is the speed difference and >> dust off my C skills. >> >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:22 PM Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Yesterday I tested creating PNGs from disk using Athens: >>> >>> [(AthensCairoSurface >>> createFromFile: '/Users/esteban/Dev/Pharo/pharo50/Lenna.png' >>> ifFailed: [ ]) >>> asForm] bench. >>> >>> That gave me 46k/s … (455k image) which IMO is pretty reasonable :) >>> >>> Esteban >>> >>> > On 19 Jan 2016, at 12:34, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> >> On 19 Jan 2016, at 12:29, PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Denis >>> >> >>> >> Very interesting. It would be more interesting if you could save your >>> >> test image as a .png file, and then include reading with PNGReadWriter in >>> >> your comparison. This would help to confirm or refute the original point >>> >> made by Dimitris, that reading from .png is particularly slow. >>> > >>> > Check the original thread/case, it is slow. Not *very* slow, but slower >>> > than the plugin based JPEG reader. That is what we eventually need, a >>> > plugin >>> > base PNG reader. >>> > >>> >> Peter Kenny >>> >> >>> >> From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] On >>> >> Behalf Of Denis Kudriashov >>> >> Sent: 19 January 2016 10:59 >>> >> To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> >>> >> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Creation form from PNG file very slow on >>> >> Pharo 4 and 5 >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> 2016-01-19 11:34 GMT+01:00 Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> most likely fuel, since it stores your live object as is. >>> >>> >>> >>> I like fuel but the fact that I may be limited by incompatible >>> >>> versions is a game stopper for me. I am ok with new version between >>> >>> incompatible with old one but there must be some backward compatibility >>> >>> to >>> >>> any format I use. Or else I end up worrying about things I should not be >>> >>> worrying about. >>> >> >>> >> You are right. I perform little experiment. Fuel reading is 60% faster >>> >> than BMP: >>> >> >>> >> Smalltalk garbageCollect; garbageCollect. >>> >> r1 := [FileLocator imageDirectory / 'test.bmp' readStreamDo: [ :s | >>> >> s binary. >>> >> fromBMP := BMPReadWriter formFromStream: s]] benchFor: 2 seconds. >>> >> >>> >> Smalltalk garbageCollect; garbageCollect. >>> >> r2:=[FileLocator imageDirectory / 'test.fuel' readStreamDo: [ :s | >>> >> s binary. >>> >> fromFuel := (FLMaterializer newDefault materializeFrom: s) root]] >>> >> benchFor: 2 seconds. >>> >> >>> >> { r1. r2 } "an Array(a BenchmarkResult(2,199 iterations in 2 seconds 2 >>> >> milliseconds. 1,098 per second) a BenchmarkResult(5,728 iterations in 2 >>> >> seconds 3 milliseconds. 2,860 per second))" >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >