Re: font substitution

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 8/9/07, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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 :-)

  Thanx. I will take a look shortly.

  Yen-Ju

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