Re: FT_New_Face called many time for same font.

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 10/13/2009 05:43 AM, Jesper L. Nielsen wrote:
> 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.

libpangoft2.so provides two things: the pangoft2 backend (which is obsolete), 
and the pangofc abstract backend, that is also used by pangocairo.  That's why 
it's still linked.

> > 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?

That should work.  Let us know.

behdad