[HarfBuzz] HarfBuzz rewrite

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi,

For the past few days, I've been busy working on a rewrite of HarfBuzz.
The main motivation here has been to be able to use an mmapped file
instead of reading all tables into memory.  So far the result has been
very promising, and I've finished the equivalent of harfbuzz-open (that
is, Common Table Formats).  I structured the code into the same layout
as the current code base.  Here it is:

  git clone http://freedesktop.org/~behdad/harfbuzz-ng.git

There are some controversial decisions I had to make however.  A brief
intro into the design, in no particular order:

  - I decided to go with C++ internally, for the main reason of getting
"free" (as in developer time) conversion to host endian-ness.  I had
defined classes for all basic integer types that allow for using them
like integers in arithmetic and depending on the overloaded operators to
take care of the endian conversion.  I think this is a major
optimization in sense of coding effort AND correctness.

  - Another benefit of using C++ is that it's now possible to enforce a
lot of constraints, like const correctness and privacy.

  - Writing the code has so far mostly turned out to be a direct
translation of the spec tables into structs.  I even chose to use struct
names directly form the spec, with no prefix, for internal use.  So I
have types named Fixed, USHORT, and OffsetTable.  The idea is to have a
separate public (C) API on top of this.

  - Out of the old harfbuzz code, more than one third is reading the
tables, less than one third is to free them, and about one third is to
actually use them for any operation.  In the new code base, thanks to
the mmapped tables, only the last category is needed.

  - I'm writing a script to generate struct code from the tables off the
standard.  After that, I plan to finish the gdef code, including
"synthesized gdef tables", and after that, I plan to adapt the
harfbuzz-buffer code and adjust the gpos/gsub code to use the new API.
We will see how far that goes.

Comments more than welcome.  I know that some of the choices I made
(operator overloading, etc) are crazy.  I need to hear about them :),

Cheers, and Happy New Year,
-- 
behdad
http://behdad.org/

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