Performance comparision of cairo-image from 1.8.8 to current on a slow netbook:
epiphany-20090810 1.00 1.02 1.48 evolution-20090607 1.02 1.00 4.33 evolution-20090618 1.00 1.02 2.15 firefox-20090601 1.00 1.02 1.83 firefox-periodic-table 1.19 1.00 1.86 firefox-talos-gfx-20090702 1.12 1.00 1.65 firefox-world-map 1.00 2.51 2.27 gnome-terminal-20090601 1.01 1.00 1.27 gnome-terminal-20090728 1.09 1.00 1.45 poppler-20090811 1.00 1.00 1.09 poppler-bug-12266 1.32 1.00 13.16 swfdec-fill-rate 1.00 1.03 1.09 swfdec-fill-rate-2xaa 1.00 1.00 1.15 swfdec-fill-rate-4xaa 1.00 1.00 1.16 swfdec-giant-steps 1.00 1.23 1.31 swfdec-youtube 1.00 1.00 1.14 [0] 1.8.8.tiny, image
[1] 1.9.2.tiny, image
[2] 1.9.2-505-g2e9cad3.tiny, image