[ft] Freetype performance question?

[Michael Sander]

Most users of freetype on a X system first use the freetype2 engine to 
render the font to some in-memory bitmap and then use XPutImage to 
render the image to the screen.

Does anyone have any performance benchmarks compared to simple X 
rendering (i.e. XDrawString). I am especially concerned over slow X 
connections. If one is rendering a full screen of text using freetype on 
a slow X connection they have to effectively transfer a full screen 
bitmap image.

Has anyone ever tested this or measured the performance hit compared to 
XDrawString?

Thanks!

Michael

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