Re: [ft-devel] rendering speedup

[Werner LEMBERG]

> After doing a few speed measurements to a Qt based program I found
> that freetype was producing a few hotspots, two of them in
> src/smooth/ftsmooth.c

Aah, your code is a fix for the `Infinality' patch set!

> With the patch attached the time spent there was reduced some 50%
> (by block re-allocations and more effective initialization).
> Perhaps you'll find it worthwhile for mailine integration.

Thanks.  However, the `Infinality' code is not in upstream FreeType.
Very unfortunately, its author has completely disappeared, apparently
no longer interested in (a) maintaining it, and (b) helping integrate
it :-(


    Werner