I've been doing some optimization for the following piece of code :
public void DrawLine(int x1, int y1, int x2, int y2, int color)
{
_bitmap.DrawLineBresenham(x1, y1, x2, y2, color);
}
After profiling it about 70% of the time spent was in getting a context for drawing and disposing it.
I ended up sketching the following overload :
public void DrawLine(int x1, int y1, int x2, int y2, int color, BitmapContext bitmapContext)
{
_bitmap.DrawLineBresenham(x1, y1, x2, y2, color, bitmapContext);
}
Until here no problems, all the user has to do is to pass a context and performance is really great as a context is created/disposed one time only (previously it was a thousand times per second).
The next step was to make it generic in the sense it doesn't depend on a particular framework for rendering (besides .NET obvisouly).
So I wrote this method :
public void DrawLine(int x1, int y1, int x2, int y2, int color, IDisposable bitmapContext)
{
_bitmap.DrawLineBresenham(x1, y1, x2, y2, color, (BitmapContext)bitmapContext);
}
Now every time a line is drawn the generic context is casted, this was unexpected for me.
Are there any approaches for fixing this design issue ?
Note :
_bitmap is a WriteableBitmap from WPF
BitmapContext is from WriteableBitmapEx library
DrawLineBresenham is an extension method from WriteableBitmapEx
