[Fontconfig] _fcConfig

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Mar 2 02:14:29 EST 2005


Around 14 o'clock on Mar 1, Jakub Pavelek wrote:

> I was thinking whether it would make sense to move the _fcConfig to a
> shared memory segment and have it shared between all the applications
> linking with libfontconfig? I'm "losing" 1.3 second of my desktop
> startup to repeated FcInit() calls.

It's a bit more complicated than that, FcInit loads all of the font 
information, and so sharing all of that will require re-working the 
current cache architecture.  I plan on doing that work within the 2.4 
development period.

-keith


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