Re: font substitution

[Fred Kiefer]

Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
>>>   Another thing I am thinking is to save the coveredCharacterSet on disk.
>>>   Font does not change frequently,
>>>   and it does take time to generate coveredCharacterSet for each font,
>>>   especially for CJK.
>>>   If the cached coveredCharacterSet can be saved on disk and loaded later,
>>>   it can reduce the overhead of starting an application.
>>>   For art backend, it can even pack the saved coveredCharacterSet in nfont.
>>>   So for small font, it is fine to check the covered character each time.
>>>   For big font, saved character set is better.
>>>
>> Great idea! Would you like to work on that?
> 
>   If the patch you have goes into the -trunk,
>   I can play with it and see how much it effects the speed
>   and decide what's the best way to do the cache if needed.
> 

I just committed this change, now it is your turn :-)