[Fontconfig] Streamlining fontconfig scanning

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Aug 9 14:38:02 UTC 2017


Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a proposed patchset speeding up fontconfig scanning by 10x, simply
> by not loading glyphs at all, and trusting fonts having correct cmap:

I added glyph scanning because there were a few fonts with incorrect
cmaps. Essentially what I found was that vendors were sub-settings fonts
by stripping out the shapes while leaving the cmap intact.

-- 
-keith
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