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

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

--- Comment #10 from Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop at behdad.org> ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> (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.

Then I like to hear about such usecases.  That's what I'm saying.

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