Comment 18 for bug 1351597

On 2015-01-11 22:27 (+0200), ~suv wrote:
> (Recent Windows builds of GIMP with newer cairo version also seem to
> be affected by performance issues related to cairo - GIMP users
> noticed that hiding the ruler improves performance. AFAIK Inkscape's
> ruler widget is based on code from GIMP. If the ruler updates
> contribute to the performance issues tracked here, maybe this recent
> commit in GIMP could be ported and tested with Inkscape:
> <https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=20863440fbe754c34059ca04a042bd927fbb9d6b>)

The mentioned GIMP commit had been backported to inkscape trunk by Liam P. White on 2015-02-25:
* Revision 13941: Backport commit 2086344 from GIMP master: try to fix rulers (bug #1351597)
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/13941

Today a final fix for the same issue was committed in GIMP:
* https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736411#c39
* diff in GIMP master:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=72617e42b426e6788c075539a20df7365d2cf102

Anyone willing/able to investigate this second commit in GIMP to address ruler performance issues on Windows for backporting to Inkscape trunk too (the second commit in GIMP is on top of the first one, it removes most of the changes the first one had added), and to offer patched 64bit Inkscape builds for Windows (with cairo 1.14) for testing?