[Fontconfig] mmaping FcInit

[Keith Packard]

Around 1 o'clock on Mar 21, Patrick Lam wrote:

> In short, I think that one would need to replace pointers with array 
> indices; to do otherwise seems to be asking for trouble.  I've started a 
> patch that does this; my current patch is available at

Yes, of course the structures need to be address independent.  I was 
thinking that at the same time we'd also investigate changing the search 
algorithm and data structure to reduce the cost of searching and matching 
fonts.

Right now, the cost of pattern matching scales linearaly with the number of
fonts, when you have thousands of fonts, this isn't acceptable.

-keith


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