[Qgis-developer] QT 4.3 vectors rendering benchmarks

Tim Sutton tim at linfiniti.com
Wed Nov 1 09:36:31 EST 2006


Hi Mateusz

Nice article - thanks for the pointer! I've read some of Zacks before
and its nice to know there is someone thinking so much about graphics
rendering performance since qgis depends so heavily on it.

Regards

Tim

On 10/31/06, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here I'm forwarding interesting article [1] from Zack Rusin's blog.
> He benchmarked QT 4.3 - highly optimized version of QT for graphics
> rendering with other available renderers like Cairo.
> Generally, the conclusion is that rendering polygons is going to be
> bloody fast, what sounds cool for GIS applications as Quantum GIS is.
> Despite of the huge number of comments and long discussion [2] on Zack's
> blog, I believe it's interesting for QGIS development.
>
> [1] http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2006/10/benchmarks.html
> [2] http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2006/10/disappointing.html
>
> Cheers
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