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Re: [ft] How can I Minimize Heap Size in Freetype 2.6?


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [ft] How can I Minimize Heap Size in Freetype 2.6?
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 06:32:16 +0200 (CEST)

> I was using freetype 2.4 version in my embedded application for
> rendering ttf files only.  It uses about 12 KB heap size, when I set
> FT_RENDER_POOL_SIZE to 4096 Bytes.  But in freetype 2.6 ,it takes
> around 20 KB heap size minimum.  Here I could observe ,freetype 2.6
> doesn't use raster_pool anymore.

Yes, Behdad rewrote the B/W rasterizer code to make it thread-safe.
It is possible that due to that change a larger heap size is
necessary.

> 1. What is the minimum heap size needed for freetype to rasterize
>    ttf files as a binary image? (I don't need smoothing and gray
>    shades)
> 
> 2. How can I minimize heap size in freetype 2.6 for this purpose?

Behdad, can you answer these two questions?


    Werner



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