Bug#579014: A new major stable release 0.18.0 of the pixman library is now available
Package: pixman
Version: pixman 0.18.0
Severity: normal
A new major stable release 0.18.0 of the pixman library is now available.
New features:
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- Support for creating regions from images [Alexander Larsson]
- Improved support for images larger than 16 bits [Benjamin Otte]
Performance improvements:
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Performance was a major theme of this release. Optimizations include:
- Faster rescaling with nearest filter [Alexander Larsson, Siarhei
Siamashka, Søren Sandmann Pedersen]
- Faster rescaling with bilinear filter [André Tupinambá]
- Many new fast paths for ARM NEON [Siarhei Siamashka]
- Faster unantialised text rendering [Siarhei Siamashka]
- Reduced overhead in fast path lookup [Søren]
Results from a number of benchmarks in the cairo performance test
suite on x86 and ARM. A number such as 1.84x means that on that particular
benchmark pixman 0.18.0 runs 1.84 times faster than pixman 0.16.6.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-openvz-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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