[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 64766] Make fontconfig scanning faster

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64766

--- Comment #8 from Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop at behdad.org> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
>
> > For memory fonts, is it really a big deal?  Why do people query those anyway?
> 
> Yes, it's a big deal. There are many use cases for memory fonts, such as
> embedding fonts in Matroska (mkv) files, web-fonts, fonts embedded in
> documents, special application-specific fonts.

Most those usecases don't need to pass the font to fontconfig at all.  They
already have the font, they should just use it.

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