Re: [ft] Optimizing ft_adobe_glyph_list

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I've recently came across ft_adobe_glyph_list array which is a 56kB
> table.  It seems that it's possible to compress it better by
> extracting duplicate substrings possibly at some small performance
> cost.
> 
> My preliminary calculations put the size of the optimized table
> somewhere between 24-26kB.  That would be 30kB savings which is
> non-insignificant part of the freetype library.
> 
> Would you be interested in this kind of optimization?  I'd be glad
> to continue working on it.

Yes, I'm interested!  However, before you are investing more time into
it, could you give us a reference to what algorithm you plan to use?
Alternatively, please outline with a few words how you are going to
implement the compression.


    Werner