[Fontconfig] performance optimizations

[Owen Taylor]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 09:35 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:

> > What would help a *lot* in reducing the size of that cache would be to
> > finesse BDF/PCF fonts in some way and make the FcFontSort results
> > independent of pixel size. Not that I have any good idea for how to do
> > that. 
> 
> That's easy -- migrate the BDF/PCF fonts to TTF files which include all of 
> the sizes in a single file.  That will dramatically reduce the number of 
> entries in the database.

Well, if we *eliminate* BDF/PCF font support, that helps. Otherwise, 
I don't see it helping much.

Regards,
						Owen

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