Fwd: Re: [Kde-imaging] kdeextragear-libs-1/kipi-plugins

[Aurelien Gateau]

Le jeudi 17 Juin 2004 20:27, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> > Thanks for this bench. Unfortunatelly, I can't run it on my work machine
> > because I can't install Imlib2 (Debian Woody). I will try it at home. It
> > seems that Imlib2 is indeed faster than Qt, but the dependency troubles
> > make it not worth the price IMHO.
>
> my opinion on this issue is that libkipi should have minimal dependencies,
> as some or most of our apps will depend on it. but when it comes to
> plugins, i think we should leave it upto the plugin author to decide how
> the functionality (and hence the dependencies) is provided. by making use
> configure scripts, one can easily enable/disable compiling individual
> plugins.

This is fine with me.


> > Another thing: I think the rotation test is not
> > fair because for the Imlib2 version you use a special 90° optimized
> > rotation function while for Qt you use the free angle rotation method.
>
> very true. but its very rare for one to do free angle rotation. there are
> free angle rotations in imlib2 too; though i haven't tested them

Agreed too. Was just trying to make the Qt numbers look less bad :-).

Aurélien