On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 20:48 -0500, Patrick Lam wrote: > Hi all, > > The folks at SuSE have been profiling and contributing a number of > performance patches for fontconfig, which I've all reviewed and > committed. The most recent one is for FcFontSetMatch, which they report > gives a 3.5x speedup in fontconfig; that patch rewrote the algorithm by > inlining FcCompare and swapping the order of the loops, blocking fonts > that were ineligible for being the best font. So while both the old > algorithm and the new algorithm are linear in the number of installed > fonts, the new algorithm is much faster than the old algorithm by doing > a lot less value list compares. > > Lots of thanks to Dirk Mueller, Stephen Kulow and Michael Matz! > > pat Hmm, I might be missing something, but after updating today, my fc-list does not list any fonts anymore. Maybe the optimization was a bit too drastic... Matthias
