I modified the Haskell program to use cairo directly, even with safe calls, and it now takes the same time as the C program.
{-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface #-}
module Main where
import qualified Graphics.Rendering.Cairo as C
import Control.Monad
import Foreign
import Foreign.C.Types
import Foreign.C.String
foreign import ccall "cairo.h cairo_image_surface_create" cairo_image_surface_create :: CInt -> CInt -> CInt -> IO (Ptr ())
foreign import ccall "cairo.h cairo_create" cairo_create :: Ptr () -> IO (Ptr ())
foreign import ccall "cairo.h cairo_set_source_rgb" cairo_set_source_rgb :: Ptr () -> CDouble -> CDouble -> CDouble -> IO ()
foreign import ccall "cairo.h cairo_rectangle" cairo_rectangle :: Ptr () -> CDouble -> CDouble -> CDouble -> CDouble -> IO ()
foreign import ccall "cairo.h cairo_fill" cairo_fill :: Ptr () -> IO ()
foreign import ccall "cairo.h cairo_surface_write_to_png" cairo_surface_write_to_png :: Ptr () -> CString -> IO ()
main = do
s <- cairo_image_surface_create 0 1024 768
cr <- cairo_create s
cairo_set_source_rgb cr 0 255 0
forM_ [0,2..1024] $ \x -> do
forM_ [0,2..768] $ \y -> do
cairo_rectangle cr x y 1 1
cairo_fill cr
pic <- newCString "picture.png"
cairo_surface_write_to_png s pic
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Vincent Hanquez
<tab@snarc.org> wrote:
On 11/02/2011 09:51 AM, Eugene Kirpichov wrote:
Hi Claude,
I suspected that the issue could be about unsafe foreign imports - all imports in the cairo bindings are "safe".
I compiled myself a version of cairo bindings with the "rectangle" and "fill" functions marked as unsafe.
Unfortunately that didn't help the case at all, even though the core changed FFI calls from "__pkg_ccall_GC" to "__pkg_ccall". The performance stayed the same; the overhead is elsewhere.
__gmpz_init(0x7f5043171730, 1, 0x7f5043171750, 0x7f5043171740, 0x7f50431d2508) = 0x7f50431d2530
__gmpz_mul(0x7f5043171730, 0x7f5043171750, 0x7f5043171740, 0x7f50431d2538, 0x7f50431d2508) = 1
__gmpz_init(0x7f5043171728, 1, 0x7f5043171748, 0x7f5043171738, 0x7f50431d2538) = 0x7f50431d2568
__gmpz_mul(0x7f5043171728, 0x7f5043171748, 0x7f5043171738, 0x7f50431d2570, 0x7f50431d2538) = 1
__gmpn_gcd_1(0x7f50431d2580, 1, 1, 1, 1) = 1
<repeated thousand of time>
before each call cairo calls.
just to make sure, the C version doesn't exhibit this behavior.
--
Vincent