[wxruby-users] render natively

[Alex Fenton]

Jim flip wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers, I think I will try using a bitmap and it's 
> set_data method as this should be simple to try out but may be a bit 
> slow.
>   
If you can avoid composing or decomposing the image data in Ruby (using 
pack etc) this will be pretty fast - for example, if you can get your 
extension to emit image data in that format. Then it's just a C-level 
memcpy going on.

Similarly Image.read should be fast if you can get your extension to 
produce a known image format. These wxRuby methods are not particularly 
far off the native C library functions in libtiff, libpng etc

alex