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

[bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org]

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

--- Comment #36 from nfxjfg at gmail.com ---
(In reply to Behdad Esfahbod from comment #35)
> It wasn't designed to be used on win32 and osx.

I understand that, but it creates big problems for portable software.

In fact, it seems serious portable software should invent its own font
abstraction layer, instead of using fontconfig&freetype. It would be nice if
that were not the case.

Also, the fontconfig slowness actually does cause problems on Linux too. libass
is slow at using external fonts embedded in subs (which happen frequently with
the kind of files libass is meant to work with), and I bet there are other
use-cases where this can become a problem, such as webfonts.

-- 
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/e5433cf5/attachment.html>