Re: memory allocations.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes: 
> One of these slopes must be the font map. So it's a whole bunch of
> short strings for font names.
> 
> We could pool them by just forcing them all to the same length, maybe,
> though the length is in principle arbitrary.  Ideally we would not
> have the font map. I think things look a lot different in Xft mode
> instead of traditional X fonts mode, this is the traditonal-X-fonts
> map.

Hmm, fontmap strings are probably immutable, so we could just put them
all in one large single block while still allowing arbitrary string
length.

Havoc