Qt and GTK performance

[A9am]

Hi,

I am drawing an underlay and overlay pixmaps and compositing the layers on to a window. I have two different codes using Qt and GTK. My system configuration is;

OS - RHEL 6.0
Graphics card - Nvidia GeForce GTX650Ti
Qt Version - 4.8.4

The composite time of the pixmaps in Qt is more than GTK.Even the CPU load is more

CPU LOAD Draw Time Composite Time Total Time

Qt-4.8.4 29 % 1.00 ms 12.410 ms 13.410 ms

GTK 1 – 2 % 0.04 ms 0.00 ms 0.04 ms



Kindly suggest the solution. How to increase the performance in Qt?

Thanks ,
Anu

[wysota]

Qt and GTK differ in their nature, you can just rewrite the code for the other framework using the same semantics and expect a similar behaviour. Without you showing us your code or at least describing what it does there is nothing we can do.

[A9am]

Hi,

Please find the codes.


Qt :

void MainWindow::updateUlayPixmap(void)
{
/* Remember last position. */
static int xPos = 0;

if (m_ulayPixmap)
{
/* Get window size. */
QRect winRect = m_ui->gfxWidget->rect();

/* Create painter. */
QPainter ulayPainter(m_ulayPixmap);
ulayPainter.setClipRegion(winRect);

/* Clear to black. */
ulayPainter.fillRect(winRect, Qt::black);

/* Create some brushes. */
QBrush fgBrush(QColor(255, 255, 0, 255));

/* Draw vertical bar. */
int boxW = 50;
int boxH = winRect.height();
ulayPainter.fillRect(xPos, 0, boxW, boxH, fgBrush);

/* Update box position. */
xPos = (xPos + 2) % winRect.width();

/* Finished rendering. */
ulayPainter.end();
}

} /* MainWindow::updateUlayPixmap() */


void MainWindow::updateOlayPixmap(void)
{
/* Remember last position. */
static int yPos = 0;

if (m_olayPixmap)
{
/* Get window size. */
QRect winRect = m_ui->gfxWidget->rect();

/* Create painter. */
QPainter olayPainter(m_olayPixmap);
olayPainter.setClipRegion(winRect);

/* Configure painter to preserve alpha in rendered graphics. */
olayPainter.setCompositionMode(QPainter::Compositi onMode_Source);

/* Set clip region. */
olayPainter.setClipRegion(winRect);

/* Clear to transparent. */
olayPainter.fillRect(winRect, Qt::transparent);

/* Create some brushes. */
QBrush fgBrush(QColor(255, 0, 0, 128));

/* Draw horizontal bar. */
int boxW = winRect.width();
int boxH = 50;
olayPainter.fillRect(0, yPos, boxW, boxH, fgBrush);

/* Update box position. */
yPos = (yPos + 2) % winRect.height();

/* Finished rendering. */
olayPainter.end();
}

} /* MainWindow::updateOlayPixmap() */

void MainWindow::updateWindow(void)
{
static unsigned int updateCount = 0;
static UINT32 drawTimeMsecs = 0;
static UINT32 compositeTimeMsecs = 0;

/* Redraw pixmaps. */
UINT32 start = GetTickerMsecs();
updateUlayPixmap();
updateOlayPixmap();
drawTimeMsecs += GetTimeDiff(start, GetTickerMsecs());

/* Update graphics window. */
start = GetTickerMsecs();
m_ui->gfxWidget->repaint();
compositeTimeMsecs += GetTimeDiff(start, GetTickerMsecs());

/* Update count. */
updateCount++;

if (updateCount == 100)
{
/* Report times. */
printf("Average draw time = %.3fms, ", drawTimeMsecs / 100.0);
printf("composite time = %.3fms, ", compositeTimeMsecs / 100.0);
printf("total = %.3fms\n",
(drawTimeMsecs + compositeTimeMsecs) / 100.0);

fflush(stdout);

/* Reset. */
updateCount = 0;
drawTimeMsecs = 0;
compositeTimeMsecs = 0;
}

} /* MainWindow::updateWindow() */












GTK:


static gboolean mainLoopTimer(gpointer data)
{
static unsigned int updateCount = 0;
static UINT32 drawTimeMsecs = 0;
static UINT32 compositeTimeMsecs = 0;

/* Redraw pixmaps. */
UINT32 start = GetTickerMsecs();
updateUlayPixmap();
updateOlayPixmap();
drawTimeMsecs += GetTimeDiff(start, GetTickerMsecs());

/* Update graphics window. */
start = GetTickerMsecs();
compositePixmaps();
compositeTimeMsecs += GetTimeDiff(start, GetTickerMsecs());

/* Update count. */
updateCount++;

if (updateCount == 100)
{
/* Report times. */
printf("Average draw time = %.3fms, ", drawTimeMsecs / 100.0);
printf("composite time = %.3fms, ", compositeTimeMsecs / 100.0);
printf("total = %.3fms\n",
(drawTimeMsecs + compositeTimeMsecs) / 100.0);
fflush(stdout);

/* Reset. */
updateCount = 0;
drawTimeMsecs = 0;
compositeTimeMsecs = 0;
}

/* We want to be called again next time. */
return(TRUE);

} /* mainLoopTimer() */

static void updateUlayPixmap(void)
{
/* Remember last position. */
static int xPos = 0;

if (Ulay24Pixmap)
{
/* Get the GFX window width and height */
int width = GfxDrawingArea->allocation.width;
int height = GfxDrawingArea->allocation.height;

/* Create and configure cairo drawing context */
cairo_t *cr = gdk_cairo_create(Ulay24Pixmap);

/* Clear to black. */
cairo_set_source_rgb(cr, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
cairo_rectangle(cr, 0.0, 0.0, width, height);
cairo_fill(cr);

/* Draw horizontal bar. */
int boxW = 50;
int boxH = height;
cairo_set_source_rgb(cr, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0);
cairo_rectangle(cr, xPos, 0, boxW, boxH);
cairo_fill(cr);

/* Update box position. */
xPos = (xPos + 2) % width;

/* Clean up */
cairo_destroy(cr);
}

} /* updateUlayPixmap */

static void updateOlayPixmap(void)
{
/* Remember last position. */
static int yPos = 0;

if (Olay32Pixmap)
{
/* Get the GFX window width and height */
int width = GfxDrawingArea->allocation.width;
int height = GfxDrawingArea->allocation.height;

/* Create and configure cairo drawing context.
* Note that 'source' mode must be selected otherwise
* cairo will blend with the existing pixmap data rather
* than overwrite.
*/
cairo_t *cr = gdk_cairo_create(Olay32Pixmap);
cairo_set_operator(cr, CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE);

/* Clear the background to transparent. */
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
cairo_rectangle(cr, 0.0, 0,width, height);
cairo_fill(cr);

/* Draw horizontal bar. */
int boxW = width;
int boxH = 50;
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.5);
cairo_rectangle(cr, 0, yPos, boxW, boxH);
cairo_fill(cr);

/* Update box position. */
yPos = (yPos + 2) % height;

/* Clean up */
cairo_destroy(cr);
}

} /* updateOlayPixmap */

static void compositePixmaps(void)
{
if (Ulay24Pixmap && OlayPicture && CombPicture && GfxWin)
{
/* Get the GFX window width and height */
int width = GfxDrawingArea->allocation.width;
int height = GfxDrawingArea->allocation.height;

/* Copy underlay pixmap to combined pixmap. */
gdk_draw_drawable(Comb24Pixmap,
Comb24PixmapGC,
Ulay24Pixmap,
0, 0,
0, 0,
width, height);

/* Copy overlay graphics into combined pixmap. */
XRenderComposite(X11Display,
PictOpOver,
OlayPicture,
None,
CombPicture,
0, 0,
0, 0,
0, 0,
width, height);

/* Render combined pixmap to the window. */
gdk_draw_drawable(GfxWin,
GfxWinGC,
Comb24Pixmap,
0, 0,
0, 0,
width, height);
}

} /* compositePixmaps */

[wysota]

Where are you calling updateWindow()? Why are you calling repaint() from within that code? Why are you setting clipping?

[anda_skoa]

One difference seems to be that the Qt code is applying a clip region, thus having to do an inside/outside test for every pixel it draws, while the GTK version doesn't

Cheers,
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