Re: [ft-devel] Unix Font Performance/Rendering patches available

[David Turner]

I forgot a screenshot :-)

- David


David Turner a écrit :
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm proud to announce a new page, containing patches for various libraries
> using FreeType, in order to improve performance and/or rendering quality
> on Unix systems. You'll find it at:
>
> http://turnerdavid.neuf.fr/freetype/patches/font-patches.html
>
> you'll find two patches at the moment, one speeds up fontconfig cache
> regeneration speed in important ways for systems that have not upgraded
> to FreeType 2.2
>
> the other one implements ClearType-like LCD filtering, and fixes
> Cairo/libXft
> to enable light-hinted subpixel rendering. This feature might ultimately be
> implemented within FreeType, but I'm still too unsure of the patent
> situation
> regarding this technology to do that now.
>
> I'm currently using light-hinted subpixel rendered text on my desktop,
> and it's
> rather delicous :-)
>
>
> More patches are in the work, but I prefer not to announce anything.
>
> You'll also notice that I recently commited a huge set of optimizations
> to the
> FreeType CVS that speeds up TrueType glyph loading (with hinting) by 25% on
> x86 Linux. This has the effect of further reducing fontconfig's cache
> regeneration,
> which runs in 8.5 seconds, instead of 20.5 (I added fonts since my last
> benchmark).
>
> Enjoy,
>
> - David Turner
> - The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)
>
>
> PS: I've sent my patch to the fontconfig mailing list, but it seems to
> have never
>       reached them. I also tried three times to join the list, but this
> has never worked.
>       Could someone do something about it ? Keith Packard, are you reading ?
>
>
>
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