[cairo] text measurement in perf?
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Tue May 29 16:35:24 PDT 2007
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 18:13 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 17:25 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
> > Seems like for both Chinese and Japanese a cache of around 2000
> > character is more than enough (same way that 256 is more than enough for
> > Western scripts). Not sure how to fix this without regressing. Xft has
> > a global cache size limit and a per-font one, and uses a global glyph
> > cache. Cairo used to be similar but Keith rewrote it to use per-font
> > glyph cache. We probably should make it adaptive. I need to do similar
> > things in Pango too, so I'll give it some thought and come back.
>
> So, is the actual problem that the per-scaled-font 256-element cache is
> too small for CJK?
I believe so, but I've not tested it. Also worth noting is that it may
not be a real problem for real scenarios.
> Federico
>
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