On Jan 8, 2009, at 7:29 PM, James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "Jesper" == Jesper L Nielsen <jln@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Jesper> I do have a various number of fonts for different languages > and other > Jesper> things, so the first performance hit is when fontconfig > builds it's > Jesper> cache on startup, if there is a way to disable this, I > haven't found it. > > Ideally, the cache should be built as part of generating the firmware > image, not at runtime. > > If the user can add fonts, they should go into a directory just for > such > fonts (much like a workstation user's ~/.fonts directory). Only > adding > or removing fonts from that dir would cause new caching, and only of > fonts in that dir. > > If the user cannot add or remove fonts, then the cache can be in > "rom". Currently all fonts are located on a main server, hosted using NFS. The directory on the server can be modified with new fonts by a 3rd party as he pleases, however I could probably instruct this person to do a rebuild of the cache file, which would solve the startup problem. Looking beside creating the cache by forehand, Pango still introduced quite a speed penalty when going from pure Freetype to Pango. And judging from my attachment in my previous mail, about 50% of the time is spent in FontConfig selecting and loading the correct font. But really, the part of Pango that FontConfig provides is superfluous to my project, I really just need to render a certain text (be it any kind of language) with a given font-file, and not a font family. But really, I hope someone might be able to explain why FontConfig takes so long (screendump, previous mail).. Thanks.. Jesper _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
