This is the repository with a set of traces for cairo-perf-trace tool. Compared to the original cairo-traces repository, these have been trimmed in order to make the time needed to run the benchmark reasonable even on very slow embedded systems (including, but not limited to Raspberry Pi).
In a nutshell, cairo-perf-trace is probably the most relevant benchmark for evaluating the performance of XRender extension (the thing which provides 2D acceleration) implemented by various Xorg drivers in Linux systems. The cairo library is installed on practically every desktop Linux system and is commonly used either directly or indirectly (for example via GTK+) for doing 2D graphics. The *.trace files used as the input for cairo-perf-trace benchmark are simply the traces of recorded activity of real applications. It is even possible to use cairo-trace tool, which is already packaged in many Linux distros (cairo-perf-utils in debian/ubuntu) to record your own traces of the application you care about.
Two convenience scripts are included. First after cloning the repository, you can run "setup.sh" script, which will attempt to fetch the git sources of the cairo library and also pixman (the only hard dependency, which provides software rendering backend). Then the sources are configured, compiled and installed into a local "tmp" directory.
Be warned that the included scripts are neither user-friendly nor fool-proof at the moment! Though the most common problem is expected to be just related to missing build dependencies. In debian/ubuntu this can be resolved by running:
sudo apt-get build-dep cairo
sudo apt-get install git
If the setup was successful, then it is possible to run the benchmark itself. Just run "bench.sh" and it will show human readable results (time, standard deviation, ...) as the test proceeds. And also results-raw.txt will be created and contain "raw", results, which can be processed by cairo-perf-diff-files (a text summary of the difference between two runs) or cairo-perf-chart (a nice graphical chart) tools.