Re: Split `simple.el'?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:25:55 -0400
> 
> > I have three time as many fonts, and Emacs on Windows checks 2 font
> > back-ends before it gives up on characters that don't have any font
> > supporting them.
> 
> Does this mean the same 1244 fonts (or a significant subset of them) get
> considered twice?

Not sure.  Font-specs are each checked twice, but I never tried to
trace all the fonts to see whether each back-end is tried with each
font.  I don't think it's a simple N fonts times M back-ends thing, as
one of the back-ends is more powerful and supports modern fonts, while
the other doesn't.