Re: FT_New_Face called many time for same font.

["Jesper L. Nielsen" <jln locatel dk>]

On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> I'm not sure what that is, but pangocairo definitely doesn't have  
> the problem you originally mentioned.

You were absolutely right. I changed the backend and Cairo only loads  
a font once. I wish I had known that pangoft was broken before. I  
noticed that when building libpangoft2 is still linked however. I  
there a small dependency left? I've tried doing a ldd on Firefox  
(which uses PangoCairo too, right?) and Firefox alse links with  
libpangotft2.
> As you said, those were very old postings.  It's faster than  
> anything else you find around now.

I think I'm seeing a slight decrease in speed, but I have to  
investigate that. I am unsing the same method as the example  
'cairoshape.c' coming with Pango is using. Maybe I could introduce a  
'dirty' bit, and only layout the PangoLayout once instead of twice?


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Jesper L. Nielsen
Senior Software Engineer @ 2M-Locatel