LinuxCon Europe + CloudOpen Europe

With Cairo seeing use in Wayland and in various embedded platforms, it's worthwhile to consider Cairo's OpenGL backend for providing hardware-accelerated 2D drawing support. The cairo-gl backend comprises three different compositors: MSAA, traps, and spans. This talk compares the rendering performance of the three compositors and takes a detailed look at specific performance bottlenecks in the spans compositor, how they can be improved, and for what applications one compositor would outperform the others.