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

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

--- Comment #9 from nfxjfg at gmail.com ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> (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.

That's not really true. They might have to do this because the text rendering
framework they're using uses fontconfig, because they want substitution of
missing characters, or because they get a set of fonts and still need to do
font selection.

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