[Fontconfig] RFC: new API proposal for FcPattern iterator

[Akira TAGOH]

Okay, it's not urgent task so that sounds better waiting for your work
done. then revisit this afterwards. thanks for your comment!

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
> On 09/24/2012 10:28 PM, Akira TAGOH wrote:
>> So as the developer, I personally failed to find any useful. current
>> proposal can do things with same or near costs to current
>> implementation. so FcPatternGet*() might be replaced by them in the
>> future perhaps.
>>
>> I may be missing something else. if I'm wrong, please correct me.
>
> You're not missing anything.  Indeed, with my proposed solution, there will be
> some extra work happening during the lookups.  I don't think we should be
> concerned by that though, if we don't know of any usecases where that would be
> a measurable performance issue.
>
> Plus, in the thread-safety work I'm currently doing, I'm replacing with object
> lookup hash table with something static and faster, so I'm fairly sure the
> overhead will not be a problem in any realistic usecase.
>
> Moreover, we can add the simple API that addresses the API gap, and always add
> an iterator API later if we really see a real performance issue with the
> simple API.
>
> Up to you in the end.
>
> Cheers,
>
> behdad



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Akira TAGOH