Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 1st Jul 2006 18:59 UTC, submitted by trevor
"We are very pleased to announce this release, the first major update to cairo since the original 1.0 release 10 months ago. Compared to cairo 1.0, the 1.2 release doubles the number of supported backends, adding PDF, PostScript & SVG backends to the previous xlib/win32, and image backends."
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2005-07-06
The only thing really faster in XGLX is drawing of composited bitmaps, which is used for anti-aliased text (they are not drawn as curves as you imply). This is something that has been available via RENDER for awhile, though, and is quite independent of Cairo.
As for utilizing the capabilities of modern graphics cards --- Cairo can do this in theory, but it doesn't yet do so to the point where the hardware acceleration makes things faster than core X. That's okay, because it doesn't realy need to be.
Which brings me back to my point. Utilizing the capabilities of modern hardware is really a moot point, because that's really not what makes current user interfaces feel slow on modern CPUs. OS X still renders all its vector graphics on the CPU, and it feels quite smooth, because how fast you can draw primitives really isn't the bottleneck.