Mike FABIAN wrote: > Takashi IWAI <tiwai@xxxxxxx> made a patch to reduce the amount of stat > () calls in the case when one is absolutely sure that all cache files > are OK and up-to-date and can be trusted. > > For details see > > http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=148361 > > from comment #20 on. > > There are problems if the cache files are not correct of course, > but nevertheless Takashi's patch might be a useful performance hack > if a user is able to make sure that all cache files can be trusted. This bug is not publicly readable. Doesn't it tend to be a bad idea to trust cache files, in that it causes a pretty annoying failure mode? How much performance can we potentially gain? pat _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
