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

[bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org]

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

--- Comment #35 from Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop at behdad.org> ---
(In reply to nfxjfg from comment #34)
> To be fair, font scanning should just be fast. Even if the wait time is only
> seconds on the very first scan, the initial impression of your software
> might be ruined, and the user will look for something else. Taking dozens of
> minutes is a damn joke.
> 
> Fontconfig is really a serious liability. In libass, we've been trying to
> get rid of it on win32 and osx for a while now.

It wasn't designed to be used on win32 and osx.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig-bugs/attachments/20141124/d7db7da7/attachment.html>