[Fontconfig] no `stable' cache file in `~/.fonts'

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Mon Aug 29 18:46:57 UTC 2016


On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> In that version, we've tried to prevent the race on updating caches
>> by re-scanning a directory after updating a cache once. which isn't
>> being done on the latest anymore.
>
> OK, thanks.  Will update.
>
> [I noticed the issue mainly because I have `NotoCJKSans.ttc' (file
>  size 112MByte) in the `~/.fonts' directory, and it takes a loong time
>  until the many different faces in the TTC are scanned.]

Speaking of which, it was 5x faster with non-Adobe CFF code in
FreeType.  Maybe we should use FT_Property_Set to enable faster one if
it's available.

>
>     Werner
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