Re: [ft-devel] Reg:True Type Font display

[Graham Asher]

Not only David. Many of us have spent large parts of our careers trying 
to make FreeType rasterization run faster. I made a couple of small 
contributions myself, to the fixed-point arithmetic and the 
anti-aliasing renderer. But my main solution has always been caching. In 
one library (CartoType) I use a two-stage cache. The first stage stores 
glyph outlines for a certain size. The second, main, cache stores 
rasterized bitmaps, bundled with their metrics into glyph objects. 
Outlines are cached to gain some speed when rendering the same glyph at 
many different rotations, which happens all the time in map labelling.

Historical note: it's now over ten years since I first implemented glyph 
caching for FreeType - for the Symbian OS. If anyone wants to examine 
the code, it has now been made open-source (under the Eclipse Public 
License, which is apparently more business-friendly than GPL).

Graham Asher
CartoType Ltd.


Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > We have ported Free Type Font Library (freetype-2.3.11) on fixed
> > point DSP processor (BF533, 600 MHz) in VDSP Platform.
> >
> > Basic functionality is working fine. We have got output display in
> > LCD monitor through HDMI connector.
> >
> > But the FT_Load_Char() function is taking lot of time to execute
> > (around 3 ms per character).
> >
> > Could you please provide your inputs for optimizing the function
> > FT_Load_Char()?
> >     
>
> Caching, caching, caching.  Especially loading a hinted TrueType glyph
> needs a lot of resources.  I really doubt that there is any
> possibility to make it really faster, given that David is a specialist
> for exactly such things.  Note, however, that not all compilers
> optimize in the same way, so you should play with your optimization
> options, together with a lot of profiling.
>
>
>     Werner
>
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