Re: Implementing cairo_read_func_t/cairo_write_func_t properly
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <[email protected]>
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On 02.01.2016 12:35, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >> Actually, I really wonder what that stream API is really for. >> Why not just let everything operate on an fd or directly mmap() >> the whole file ? > > A very simple reason is language binding, or in general, hooking up to other > IO libraries (gio, etc). hmm, what for, exactly ? The application has to provide its own implementation for the callback anyways, so why doesn't it just load/mmap the file as it is and call the cairo's image loader then ? --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consulting +49-151-27565287 -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo