[ft-devel] Reference count in FreeType2

[mpsuzuki]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:55:52 -0400
Behdad Esfahbod <address@hidden> wrote:
>In another note, since you seem to be writing a lot of FreeType patches
>recently, it doesn't hurt to ask: have you ever considered implementing
>reference counts for FreeType?

I remember you had ever mentioned the lack of some features
in FreeType: thread safety and reference counter,

  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2009-August/000359.html

I feel it's a pity that cairo, harfbuzz and pango had to write
their own compensations for the lacked feature.

# Werner, if the inexistence of reference counter was
# designed, please let me know.

However, yet I've not figured out the detailed usecase for
reference counter of FreeType2 (so I cannot write short testing
code), thus I cannot start working just now. If you know any
softwares showing the problem caused by the lack of reference
counter, please let me know. Should I compare older & newer
cairo?

Regards,
mpsuzuki