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Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)]
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)] |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:56:39 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
>> Ummm, I didn't realize this calling sequence. I agree that
>> we surely need some kind of caching mechanism. But, it
>> seems that FreeType itself has that mechanism called "Cache
>> Sub-System". Perhaps, we should use it.
> Unless this is extremely simple to implement, let's leave this for after
> the release.
> Maybe we should add a warning message to configure that marks the ftx
> backend as experimental; i.e., telling people that they should build
> --without-freetype if libxft is unavailable.
Could someone describe the purpose of the ftx backend? Obviously,
someone went to the trouble to write it, so there must have been some
reason why we want to support it, but from what I read above, I get the
impression that nowadays e could just scrap it altogether since xft
works better.
Stefan
- Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression), (continued)
- Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression), David Reitter, 2009/04/22
- Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression), Chong Yidong, 2009/04/22
- Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression), David Reitter, 2009/04/22
- Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression), Willem Rein Oudshoorn, 2009/04/23
- Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression), Miles Bader, 2009/04/23
- Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression), YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/04/22
- ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)], Kenichi Handa, 2009/04/22
- Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)], YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/04/23
- Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)], Kenichi Handa, 2009/04/23
- Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)], Chong Yidong, 2009/04/23
- Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)],
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)], Kenichi Handa, 2009/04/23
- Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)], Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/23
- Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)], Chong Yidong, 2009/04/23
- Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)], Chong Yidong, 2009/04/25
- Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression), Juanma Barranquero, 2009/04/21
Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression), Deniz Dogan, 2009/04/20
Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression), William Xu, 2009/04/21
Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression), Tobias C. Rittweiler, 2009/04/29