Re: compressed streams

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 7:18 AM David Turner <david@freetype.org> wrote:

Le jeu. 17 sept. 2020 à 14:01, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> a écrit :

> These are some horrible numbers that essentially test FT_Load_Glyph
> from compressed unifont.pcf.gz in reverse order: [...]

We do, there is no "rewinding the compressed stream", we have to restart from the first byte of the file everytime we need to go back in the file.

[...]

So in theory, something like that could be added. It's just seems a lot of complexity for little practical benefits imho.

Is this also true for pcf.Z and pcf.bz2? I would like to warn about this in the docs.