Around 1 o'clock on Mar 21, Patrick Lam wrote: > In short, I think that one would need to replace pointers with array > indices; to do otherwise seems to be asking for trouble. I've started a > patch that does this; my current patch is available at Yes, of course the structures need to be address independent. I was thinking that at the same time we'd also investigate changing the search algorithm and data structure to reduce the cost of searching and matching fonts. Right now, the cost of pattern matching scales linearaly with the number of fonts, when you have thousands of fonts, this isn't acceptable. -keith -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20050321/9a7f04be/attachment.pgp
