Re: [ft-devel] Scope for parallelization in freetype library

[Werner LEMBERG]

> We are trying to achieve performance improvement either through
> parallelization/optimization in the freetype-2.3.11 library.  Any
> help in this regard is highly appreciated.

The solution is caching everything!  Due to the nature of fonts I
don't see much gain in parallelization while processing a single font.

Graham Asher mentioned in a previous post that his FreeType caching
stuff from the symbian OS is now open-source, so you might use this as
a starting point.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2010-02/msg00033.html

If you can optimize FreeType further (for example, using a profiler to
isolate hot spots, then rewriting the code to make it faster) this is
very welcomed.


    Werner