id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc
1228,cairo performance is very bad,guest,paolo,"I first generate 100,000 random lines.
Drawing them with the cairo package takes 99 seconds.
Drawing them with safe foreign imports takes 15 seconds.
I haven't benchmarked unsafe foreign imports.

The 6.6x slowdown is rather high.

Benchmarking code attached.  It might fail on systems where Double /= CDouble (a possible cause of the slowdown might be conversion between these).",defect,closed,normal,,Cairo bindings,,fixed,performance,claudiusmaximus@…