Currently GTK can be built with G_ENABLE_DEBUG which enables various debug code and parsing
of those env vars, or without, which instead of parsing them prints a warning if they are set.
While building with G_ENABLE_DEBUG isn't strictly needed it's the only way to make GTK_DEBUG=interactive work,
which is a nice thing to have always.
This enables parsing of those env vars in any case and allows specific values being marked as also
available when not built with G_ENABLE_DEBUG (interactive for example). If not built with G_ENABLE_DEBUG
then all unavailable values will be marked as such in the help output and a note is added that
GTK needs to be built with G_ENABLE_DEBUG to use them, which should help discoverability.
This includes a copy of the diff(1) algorithm used by git diff by Davide
Libenzi.
It's used for the common case ofcontainer nodes having only very few
changes for the few nodes of child widgets that changed (like a button
lighting up when hilighted or a spinning spinner).
Add a setter for per-renderer debug flags, and use
them where possible. Some places don't have easy access
to a renderer, so this is not complete.
Also, use g_message instead of g_print throughout.
Forces a full redraw every frame.
This is done generically, so it's supported on every renderer.
For widget-factory first page (with the spinner spinning and progressbar
pulsing), I get these numbers per frame:
action clipped full redraw
snapshot 0ms 7-10ms
cairo rendering 0ms 10-15ms
Vulkan rendering 3-5ms 18-20ms
Vulkan expected * 0ms 1-2ms
GL rendering unsupported 55-62ms
* expected means disabling rendering of unsupported render nodes,
instead of doing fallback drawing. So it overestimates the performance,
because borders and box-shadows are disabled.
We can let the GPU do its stuff without waiting. The GPU knows what it's
doing.
Which means we now get a lot of time to spend on doing CPU things (read:
we're way better in benchmarks).
The old behavior is safer, so we want to keep it around for debugging.
It can be reenabled with GSK_RENDERING_MODE=sync.
GSK is conceptually split into two scene graphs:
* a simple rendering tree of operations
* a complex set of logical layers
The latter is built on the former, and adds convenience and high level
API for application developers.
The lower layer, though, is what gets transformed into the rendering
pipeline, as it's simple and thus can be transformed into appropriate
rendering commands with minimal state changes.
The lower layer is also suitable for reuse from more complex higher
layers, like the CSS machinery in GTK, without necessarily port those
layers to the GSK high level API.
This lower layer is based on GskRenderNode instances, which represent
the tree of rendering operations; and a GskRenderer instance, which
takes the render nodes and submits them (after potentially reordering
and transforming them to a more appropriate representation) to the
underlying graphic system.
