Re: [Fwd: calculating text length]

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 10:51 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> El mi�18-04-2007 a las 13:43 +0300, Tapani P�i escribi� 
> > I have a performance problem with Matchbox window manager calculating
> > window title width rather slowly with Pango when doing ellipsation for
> > the title.
> 
> Ouch.  We didn't get around to optimizing ellipsization during the
> initial profiling spree in Pango.
> 
> Do you want to revive that benchmark?  It's in the 'pango-profile'
> module on svn.
> 
> Still, how did you find about this problem?  Are you running a window
> manager benchmark, or is it measuring the text way too often, or what?
> 
>   Federico

Note that he's written his own (very inefficient) ellipsization
algorithm.  As Owen replied on desktop-devel-list, Pango's ellipsization
algorithm does a lot better than that.

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