Keith Packard wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 21:27 -0400, Patrick Lam wrote: > > >>I think that I can make fontconfig load all fonts to put them in the >>global cache. But maybe it's not such a disaster to have the *global* >>cache be dependent on the config files; it might beat the alternative, >>which is to load all fonts into memory and then filter through >>FcConfigAcceptFont afterwards on each run. > > Having the local cache depend on the config files would mean that we'd > have to check timestamps on all of the config files to decide whether to > rescan the system for new fonts. That seems bad, but the alternative of > just gettin the wrong answer randomly seems *far* worse. Don't we have to read all the config files anyway? pat
