HilaireFernandes wrote > After some more investigation, I think it is not the greated bottleneck. > > When I render points not as discs but as Square, Athens is happy. I > guess the Cairo way of doing this is very slow because its seems Cairo > does not come with dedicated disc rendering code, it must be render with > portion of arc, as far as I remember. > > If I prevent to render empty text label attached with each point, Athens > is even happier. Text font rendering through Athens seems to be slow. > > Hilaire > > > Le 04/04/2018 à 23:05, Hilaire a écrit : >> It reduces by 50% the time to execution. Need to check if this trick >> #1 and #2 are still needed at P7 time. > > -- > Dr. Geo > http://drgeo.eu
My notes after looking at the profile for a short while, if anyone feels the urge to optimize; UFFI: > 8.8% {11475ms} > CairoFreetypeFontRenderer>>convertString:len:ofFont:toGlyphs:numGlyphs:x:y: > | 4.7% {6098ms} ExternalAddress>>packToArity: > | 4.5% {5789ms} ExternalAddress>>pointerAutoRelease > | 2.6% {3439ms} ExternalAddress>>unpackFromArity: The lifespan of arguments that need arity packing/unpacking is well known, rewriting to use explicit free should lessen the overhead somewhat. CAIRO: > 26.6% {34593ms} CairoFreetypeFontRenderer>>glyphsOf:from:to: > | 12.2% {15842ms} CairoGlyphsArray class>>new: With this kind of overhead just to create the array to hold results, it might be worthwhile to use a buffer array (of sufficient size) for the primitive, and copyFrom:to: to return the actual glyphs... DRGEO: > 20.9% {27116ms} DrGPointMorph>>drawOnAthensCanvas: > |16.7% {21720ms} AthensCairoCanvas(AthensCanvas)>>createPath: Storing the path in DrGPointMorph, rather than recreating for each draw:, should save alot of time. > 7.7% {9962ms} DrGTextMorph>>drawOnAthensCanvas: > | 7.7% {9962ms} Form>>asAthensPaintOn: Same thing here, only storing the paint, rather than converting from form each draw. Cheers, Henry -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html