Need Performance Comparision To 'AGG'

**Arlen_Albert** · 28 September 2006, 04:13 PM

Can anyone from the Xara team add a performance comparision graph to the one at http://www.xaraxtreme.org/about/performance.html that would show the performance along with the free 2D C++ vector library 'AGG'. It can be obtained at http://www.antigrain.com.

**Arlen_Albert** · 01 October 2006, 05:09 PM

...if you cannot do this, please, explain why not?..

**Soquili** · 01 October 2006, 06:20 PM

Hi Arlen,

I haven't seen any of the developers or Xara employees around the forum for a few days. They may not have seen your post.

**Big Frank** · 01 October 2006, 06:18 PM

Xara states that "Xara Xtreme is the world's fastest vector drawing program, by a huge margin. This is partly due to using the world's fastest vector rendering engine and partly due to the inherent Xara X architecture." Do you dispute this?

**pauland** · 01 October 2006, 06:43 PM

Really, why should anyone care if the Xtreme library is faster than library X or vice-versa? It's what you do with it that counts.

Paul

**fjgaude** · 01 October 2006, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by pauland

Really, why should anyone care if the Xtreme library is faster than library X or vice-versa? It's what you do with it that counts.
Paul

Well, rendering speed does assist the artist doing his or her work. I've used Illustrator, Freehand, Inkscape, CorelDRAW!, and none of them do what Xara Xtreme does with such speed and grace. Some of the work I do is at this site:

http://yantrayoga.typepad.com/noname/

Take a look... each drawing was produced in just a few minutes, many coming from inspiration, intuition. Enjoy.

The developers seem to be at a lull, on vacation, maybe. <smile>

frank

**Arlen_Albert** · 02 October 2006, 02:38 PM

Hi Soquili.
Thank you for your response.

Hi guys,
The point is I'm a developer and the web page mentioned above shows the rendering speed of the several graphical engines. Now, I'm at the point of choosing the fast rendering engine for my needs. The AGG is the very powerful and fast open source library that allows developers to create stunting vector drawing programs. The AGG is as famous as the Cairo library is. So, why not to compare them both? The Xara CDraw engine is the alternative for me but before I choose I want to know the performance comparision. I do not want to clone or create a program similar to XaraXtreme. I just need this for my personal needs.

Best wishes and regards.

**pauland** · 02 October 2006, 03:05 PM

Several people on Talkgraphics use several illustration programs and I have no doubt that every one of them will say that Xara is the fastest illustration program out there - whichever way you look at it.

Given that is the case, you'd have to be a poor developer to turn the same library into a slow implementation, if you get my drift.

I don't see that there's any compunction on Xara to produce any comparison - they have enough other things to do!

Paul

**stuseven** · 03 October 2006, 07:39 PM

. after reading your post, it occurred to me that something like what you're asking about actually did appear quite a while ago, when Xara first announced starting the Linux branch.
It was just a simple bar chart... on one side was a bar supposedly representing the speed of some other program, and on the other side... you had to scroll up to see the top... was the Xara speed bar - ten times taller. So there you have it... Xara is at least 10 times faster :-)

Originally Posted by Arlen_Albert

Hi Soquili.
Thank you for your response.

Hi guys,
The point is I'm a developer and the web page mentioned above shows the rendering speed of the several graphical engines. Now, I'm at the point of choosing the fast rendering engine for my needs. The AGG is the very powerful and fast open source library that allows developers to create stunting vector drawing programs. The AGG is as famous as the Cairo library is. So, why not to compare them both? The Xara CDraw engine is the alternative for me but before I choose I want to know the performance comparision. I do not want to clone or create a program similar to XaraXtreme. I just need this for my personal needs.

Best wishes and regards.