Cairo is used extensively throughout the Linux desktop for 2D rendering, but Chromium's Skia drawing library claims to provide a higher performance alternative for rendering web content.
This talk will present a performance comparison tool developed at Samsung for conducting comparative performance studies between the two libraries. We'll review results on several platforms using EGL, GLX, and software-based backends for specific performance bottlenecks, and explore whether a library designed for web rendering might have relevance for desktop graphics needs as well.
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