Peter Verswyvelen
I should have mentioned that my tests have been done only on Windows and OSX. I guess I would have to try on a system that supports XRender to compare.
Unfortunately, the target audience of our application are mostly windows and OSX users, so although it would be great that Cairo performs fast on unix variants, it would be of little value to us, unless of course XRender also runs on Windows/OSX somehow :)
You might want to try http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ xorg-x11 is, after all, freely available, so I don't see any reason why any platform shouldn't support it, as it's The Standard. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.