TextOut is based on gdk_draw_layout_with_colors

[AlexTP]

GTK2 TextOut/ExtTextOut is based on TGtkDeviceContext.DrawTextWithColors
which is based on API

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1. gdk_draw_layout_with_colors(drawable, GC, X, Y, AFont^.GDIFontObject, FGColor, BGColor);  

       

I made the timings for my app and see that _many_ calls of gdk_draw_layout_with_colors are slow. (This is the case for ATSynEdit when text lines have many 'tokens').

Anybody tried to change to different GTK2 API? What I see by Lazarus auto-completion:

gdk2_draw_layout
gdk2_draw_layout_line
gdk2_draw_layout_line_with_colors
gdk2_draw_text (edited: this is deprecated since gtk 2.4)
gdk2_draw_text_wc (edited: this is deprecated since gtk 2.4)

Are they slow too? What if one of them is 10x faster? I cannot measure it because I don't know how to call them properly.