Yeah, I was actually surprised at how fast cairo can be. I had some ideas as to optimize things like prerender map markers into some tiles and then render those

Yeah, I was actually surprised at how fast cairo can be. I had some ideas as to optimize things like prerender map markers into some tiles and then render those tiles, but it seems for my use case (rendering less than 10k small images on single surface) I didn't even need to optimise it, with 2k images I had over 40fps which felt more snappy than google maps, which was enough. Of course if someone needs something better, hw accelerated opengl is the way to go. Current processors are fast, but they have their limits.