impending doom - new layers structure

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Torsten Rahn wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 22. Dezember 2005 12:38 schrieb Torsten Rahn:
> > Am Donnerstag, 22. Dezember 2005 07:09 schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
> > > I guess our approach is more flexibly, but I'm also
> > > thinking it'll be a lot slower
>
> Well the perfect solution would be to only render the style onto the display
> once and cache it afterwards until the assigned layer changes or the style
> changes. That wouldn't have any additional performance impact at all (just an
> organizational one) ;-) So if implemented properly it shouldn't be any slower
> than it's now.

It's the update on painting on a layer with styles that worries me, not the
compostiing.

Boudewijn