Re: delay at pango startup

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 14:27 -0500, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> 
> My question: which function to call to initialize pango such that
> this delay will no longer show for the app's lifetime? 

This is most probably time spent in fontconfig.  You can try creating a
dummy layout with some text in it and ask for its extents, to force
loading some fontsets, etc., but in general, there is no Pango
initialization function (nor can one be written, as it depends on text
you want to render).

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