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Re: compressed streams


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: compressed streams
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:01:32 +0200 (CEST)

> These are some horrible numbers that essentially test FT_Load_Glyph
> from compressed unifont.pcf.gz in reverse order: [...]
>
> real    0m6.062s
>
> The same string forward is much faster: [...]
>
> real    0m0.486s

Ouch.

> Is it well known that rewinding the compressed stream is so
> prohibitively expensive?  Or, is this a bug?

I don't know, sorry.  The basic question is, I guess, whether we are
correctly using the gzip interface ...


    Werner



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